First post here, so not sure if it will fit in, but here goes: Here's a little piece of research I came up with which at a lecture on Wednesday. "Current political trends due to a neglect of left space: We're bored so what's left?" Ralph McDevitt, 2008 [Abstract] The literature on spacial neglect is well known, however, more recently Tom Manly (Manly, T, 2005) has shown that even normal individuals can experience a left field attention deficit if extremley bored or tired. Current work on quantum physics suggests that the universe is a giant hologram (Talbot, M, 1991), each section showing the same properties as the whole. Further more, recent research on morphogenic fields (Sheldrake, 1981), has revived a version Jungs (1969) collective unconscious, that fields produced by our own brains project outward to change the way others think (for example rats who learn how to navigate a maze make other rats in other parts of the world better at navigating the same maze). We also know that in certain circumstances synthesia (Alexander, R.S., 1976) can shift the modality of a precept, for example lexical to visual or visual to emotional. Given current voter apathy and the fact that Britons now have the longest working hours in Europe, it is the hypothesis of this paper that this has resulted in a left field neglect in a large number of people. This has then been reflected in our political views by a move of the center towards the right and a neglect of the left by the mechanisms proposed above. To test the hypothesis such an effect should correlate with levels of tiredness and apathy country to country. And indeed this is what the results showed. The Americans who work longest hours and least voter participation seem to show the most right shift. The French on the other hand, who have high political activism and work the least hours, show the least right shift. Conclusion, the current existential crisis griping the world is causing us to move to the right politically. Think someone will publish it?!? Yours jestfully, Ralph McDevitt
