without ground. The right hemisphere is all figure and ground, and is called intuitive, is called simultaneous. Or is not called, but they’ve discovered that it has these characteristics just by rule of thumb. Fortunately, the hemispheres are not a theory, they are empirically established by the most painstaking methods. But the right hemisphere is simultaneous. That is the electric side of the brain.
Forsdale: Are you for or against the right or the left hemisphere?
McLuhan: I am for the underdog. And the right hemisphere is the underdog side of our world. The gifted child is a right hemisphere child. And there’s no place for him in the school system. The school system is built only on the left
