'A cultural lobotomy' is a term that authors Sue Bradley and Mike Fitzsimons use to describe a process that encourages us to become either logical or creative but not both.
Either our creative abilities are subjugated by a world of tasks that requires us to be constantly rational and logical, or our logical abilities are dismissed as evil by a creative fashion that abhors organization and wealth.
The roots of this malaise can be found within industrialization, then accelerated by mass production and the development of the assembly line: a process that requires folk to do simple things all day long.
Mass production depends on and values the logical and managerial, as opposed to the creative and emotional capabilities of our brain. As a consequence, two subcultures have emerged: one promoting our logical organization skills, the other championing our creative abilities.
Unfortunately these two world views have become opponents slugging it out in academic, political, and economic battlegrounds. This is having a negative impact on our experience of life and threatens our future.
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Source: Lobotomy: The Marginalisation of Creativity and How to Become Human Again