The asymmetry of interaction is the bias in our cultural systems in favor of the left hemisphere to the detriment of the right.
In the ancient world the Dionysian impulse overruled the Appolonian and it was sensible for the Greeks to tip the balance in the direction of reason and systems. The modern world has the reverse problem. The Appolonian impulse has overwhelmed the Dionysian.
"We are caught up, [according to Heidegger] in a frenzy of 'forming projects, enclosures, frameworks, division and structuring', destroying ourselves and our environment and turning all into 'resource', something to be merely exploited, Nature turned into 'one gigantic filling station'." (The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist, 2009; page 232).
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