2003-07-03
... ? Confessions of a Closet SituationistTrapped in mouse-potato-dom, most of us are docile spectators, our idle hands forever deprived of the tactile satisfaction of actually making things. This enforced passivity has dire consequences for the brain. There is evidence that toolmaking is linked to the development of language. Our hands are connected to our gray matter by a crisscrossing network of nerve pathways that travel back and forth from the right brain to the left hand and from left brain to the right hand. So, while manual dexterity stimulates our central nervous system, simple spectatorship numbs the mind.
