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24/11/2021

Almost all cultures, from the beginning of time, have adopted hands as symbols. And almost in all the right predominates over the left. The initial reason seems to be physiological and genetic: "We are rights of the hand, because we are left of the brain", that when developing to speak led to the dexterity, to the superiority of the right hand, so about 10 percent of humans are naturally left-handers and run, therefore, the fate of minorities. The utensils are manufactured to be used with the right. In cave paintings, weapons are carried with the right. The monkeys, who do not speak, do not share the asymmetry.

Closer to the present, the Hindu or dasis prostitutes were divided between those of the "right hand" for the Brahmins and those of the "left hand", who had no restrictions. In the towns of equatorial Africa, people cook and eat with the right, and the woman who prepares food with the left is accused of being a witch and of wanting to poison food. The Romans supported the left elbow on the couch and held the plate with the left, while eating with the right. Waving with the left handed was an insult.

Since before Muhammad, the Arab peoples preferred the right. The Koran codified the inclination. The auspicious side is to the right, it is the side of Allah and his Prophet. The left is unfavorable and servile. The right is the south, the wet and happy land of Yemen, while the left is the north, Syria, associated with bad omens. Even in the antipodes, among the Maori, the right side is life, force, while the left is misery and death. Sinister comes from sinister, coming from the Latin 'sinister', left-handed or dismal.

And to whom it occurs to him that Jesus Christ can sit in a different place than at the right hand of God the Father. Lucifer is always to the left in all iconographic representation. The right is the hand to bless, and to be the right hand of the ruler is to be his greatest support. The left is slow. It serves as a complement, but not to lead. That's why it ruins the day to get up with the left foot. Ambidextrous is being skillful with both hands, while his antonym, ambisinister, is being awkward with both.

In the dynamics of the French Revolution, on October 6, 1789, a motley crowd forced the transfer of Louis XVI from Versailles to his Parisian palace in the Tuileries. In the hemicycle of the theater of the palace, what was already a revolutionary Assembly continued to gather. To the right of the presidency sat, as if by magic, the moderate supporters of a constitutional monarchy - the English one - and to the left, the radicals of a republic without a king, the rebels to this day. The stamp of political conceptions was thus printed. No democracy has escaped that spatial distribution.

Calls are heard to abolish that legacy of the French Revolution. Such oppositions, they say, have been blurred: the distribution in the hemicycle of political ideas is obsolete. Perhaps they imagine the distribution of views as the shape of the universe in spacetime, so that everyone can be everywhere. They are antigeometric distortions that produces the excess of peace.

Without ideological deviations, by cultural atavism, the Hindus, and many others, eat with the right hand and the opposite with the left.