If one looks deeply into the hemispheric lateralization of the brain, a startling discovery awaits: language establishes an ersatz other ‘who’ often overtakes the person or group. This ‘other’ despises anything real or alive.
While we may call this pathological, such a response is inadequate in the extreme: we must understand the dangers implicit in rational, language-based cultures, and their products.
The regimes of people such Idi Amin and Adolf Hitler were ‘merely’ some of the early and comparatively benign representations of this process’ common produce.
Worse still: it is common (and perhaps even ‘reasonable’) for men to emulate a personal metaphorization (an inner model) of the authority-structures to which they become accustomed in youth.
If these structures are inherently toxic, it becomes very difficult to blame the men, or, actually, anything other than the cultures and ways of knowing whose success must produce monsters, because their success is reproductive, and they themselves are monstrous.
