The Battle of the Brain

So basically, humans have been neglecting the big picture?

"The neuropsychological evidence shows that the right hemisphere pays wide-open attention to the world, seeing the whole, whereas the left hemisphere is adept at focusing on a detail...There is a reason we have two hemispheres: We need both versions of the world...Yet in the West there has been such an imbalance. And as a consequence, over the past 2,500 years, there has been a kind of battle going on in our brains, the result of which has been, despite swings of the pendulum, an ever greater reliance on the left hemisphere."

The Battle of the Brain
by Iain McGilchrist
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704304504574609992107994238.html