“Anglos have different enough cognitive limitations compared to Germans, and …

—“Anglos have different enough cognitive limitations compared to Germans, and … at least some of them cannot visualize as well as we do”— Johannes Meixner

This keeps rolling around in my head. There is some evidence that this is true – that german mentality is more visual and english more verbal, just as english are more visual than ashkenazis.

It’s certainly true that german literature is more visual. That the language is more descriptive. I wonder if german thought is more empirical, romantic, aesthetic, and ‘direct/factual’, and english more logico/legal and moral, utilitarian, and political.

I think there might be a tendency in english to favor that which is good and in german that which is true.

I bet that’s a testable hypothesis. Yes that’s probably testable.

Humans are endlessly fascinating.

Not that I have time to test it.