Jay

Those videos were interesting. I’ve been fascinated with the subject of right-wing and left-wing brains since I read about a study commissioned by the actor Colin Firth a few years ago. Apparently, he jokingly declared on a panel show that he was going to find out if there is a neurological difference between right- and left-wing brains. He commissioned the study and, much to his surprise, found there definitely IS. Many other studies have reached the same conclusion.

Evolutionary-wise, it makes perfect sense. However, I’m not sure I agree with your comment that imbalances occur from time to time and tend to rectify themselves. My feeling is that people with right-wing brains (conservatives) have well and truly dominated human affairs since the late Neolithic era – about 6000 to 10,000 years ago. Small corrections occur from time to time, e.g. Ireland’s era of saints and scholars, the Rennaisance, the Enlightenment, the 1960s (and corresponding eras in non-Western cultures); however, the right-wing ALWAYS wins out.

In a strange contradiction to the videos’ premise that left-wing thinkers congregate into high-density cities, which indeed they do, it was actually the move to high-density living in the period 3000 to 6000 BCE that facilitated the rise of the right wing and its influence over human affairs. While right wingers may personally prefer the low-density lifestyle of the suburbs and rural areas, it’s much easier to boss people around when there are large numbers of them stacked into a confined space.

Liberals and Conservatives are biologically different? Gee, Killarney, I never pegged your for a racist. Welcome to the club!

Killarney,
My comment about imbalances referred only to Australia, an example would be the sudden influx of Indian students in the early part of the 21st century, that caused a lot of conflict and violence in the suburbs so the management classes had to step in and take control of the situation by changing the student visa requirements.

Killarney--<My feeling is that people with right-wing brains (conservatives) have well and truly dominated human affairs since the late Neolithic era – about 6000 to 10,000 years ago. Small corrections occur from time to time, e.g. Ireland’s era of saints and scholars, the Rennaisance, the Enlightenment, the 1960s (and corresponding eras in non-Western cultures); however, the right-wing ALWAYS wins out.>

Nature of Nuture?

The above is an interesting idea. Once again it begs the question, is it financial influence and resources that allows the middle classes to dominate, presuming the statement above is correct, or is it genetic selection. Given that the right wing classes have more
access to intellectual teaching,(well equipped schools)
and also the ability to have well fed healthy armies with superior
weapons and well nourished brains to think better and win wars.

Nuture or Nature?

It is usually no accident that wealthy nations have ancestry to some of the most successful conquerors on earth, this is how they gained
their wealth and power. But revolution and great warriors can
challenge and upend this power, creating new right wing classes out of warlords.
This is also why, right-wing conservatives have a great fear of working class unions, they are always wary of any rising up of the lesser well off that might threaten their wealth and privilege.

This is why when England was defeated by Mel Gibson's character in
Braveheart the Wealthy landowners then handed him over to the English
King. He had proved he could lead the masses and that was a direct
threat to the wealth of the Scottish wealthy, right-wing classes, so they did a deal with the English King to hand Braveheart over.
Braveheart was true in this part of the story.

This is an example of how the right-wing conservative classes guard their wealth, even turning a fellow countryman over to the hated English after he had saved them.