It is the side that controls rational thought, linear thinking, narrative, logic, numbers, and judgment.
In La Condition postmoderne (1979; The Postmodern Condition) and other writings, Lyotard declared his suspicion of what he called "grand narratives"—putatively rational, overarching accounts, such as Marxism and liberalism, of how the world is or ought to be.
It proves that amplified racism, which carves society into fragments and pits them against one another, has real consequences and reaches the minds of rational thinkers who absorb such narratives and take them to their logical conclusions.
But rational optimism has inspired graceful, witty narratives, and passionate defences of the Enlightenment ideal that knowledge and sympathy can improve the human condition.
Geology without time is rather like chemistry without elements: a collection of plausible narratives is possible; a rational basis for predictive science is not.
As long as such a voter lives, hope remains that he can do better, that he can hear the real narratives of America if rational Americans will only tell them often and enough.
And yet it seemed that whatever form of inquiry they undertook, other subliminal, imaginary, fantasy and folk and fairy tale narratives seeped under efforts to produce rational, coherent academic texts.
Rational people try to avoid easy and hackneyed narratives, but there is an easy and hackneyed narrative that the Capitals started playing better in this second-round series once all appeared lost, once the tons of pressure were removed from their aching shoulders and tossed into yonder Potomac River, once everyone had counted them out and they were allowed to play free and easy.
The neoliberal narrative of governance overlaps somewhat with rational choice theory.
They had an impressive narrative about the creation of a rational, novel, and "beautiful" molecule.
