" When it is presented with evidence that what it is doing is not working, its invariable response is first to deny that there is a problem, but, if pushed, to respond not that we have done too much of something that is ineffective, but that we simply need to do more of it: because that’s what its theory dictates, and for the left hemisphere theory trumps reality. "

― Iain McGilchrist , The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World