QC

I still don't understand the full structure, but one thing I've learned in the meantime from reading McGilchrist's book on the @divided_brain is that: A) most emotions (grief for sure) are mostly based in RightHem B) anger is based in LHem C) grasping for need to control is LHem

So from the left hemisphere's perspective, it can maintain its sense of control by feeling anger rather than grief. And having this control matters to it a lot. A well-integrated brain isn't subject to this need for control, but can hold it as part of a larger picture.

But, as McGilchrist points out, most people in the modern western world don't have well-integrated brains! Our left hemispheres have taken over in a certain ways, and the result is the identification with this need for control & certainty & being right: hence, anger.

I'm valuing, in this moment, that even as I feel a deepened sense of understanding here, I also feel aware of how much I still don't know. (This too is a hemispheres thing.)https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/979441452114677761 …

Yeah liget is legit. I read that article last year, thought lots about it, & explored it a bit myself. And @QiaochuYuan and I were recently talking about that in relation to the hemispheres. I don't know the details, but defs something more LR-integrated with liget, vs anger.

I believe I've experienced liget, and it's incredibly frustrating how little room there is for it in modern Western life by default. I was at a memorial service for a friend of mine who committed suicide a year ago, and nobody cried. One person started but *stopped herself*.