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If the future of medicine is light then I don’t want to see any of you MAGAt morons in a hospital or doctors office. Go sit outside and pray away your sickness in the sunlight, dumbasses.
Mass suicide pact when?
No you read it all wrong, this is about getting government vibrators to everyone. Set it on high and talk to God.
Good, good. Now convince MAGA folks to drink the koolaid together…
Weeelll, humans are out of touch with the Earth and we are depleting it’s life force. I spend a great deal of time in several ecosystems, have some education in general science, botany, biology, etc., and a great deal on interest in all life sciences.
I think about this a lot, and don’t want to write a wall of depressing shit, but our ecosystems have changed drastically since I was a wee lad in the 70s. And nobody notices! When I point out a given fact to people my age, they’re clearly taken aback, had not thought about it. “Remember when cleaning bugs off your windshield was a common task?”
I can go on for an hour, but all is see is death, or rather an absence of life. If I could teleport a 20-something to the 70s, they would freak out over the abundance and variety of animals, in the city. We had more mammals in my mid-town Tulsa hood than I see on the edge of town in NW Florida. Again, I’m outside a lot, I’m looking.
Walking around outside Aldi yesterday I was looking at the perfect grass. Where most see a well kept lawn, all I saw was a barren desert. How much insecticide and herbicide did it take to make that perfect monoculture? Money says you couldn’t dig an earthworm out of that “soil”. Know how I used to find worms? Pick a random spot of dirt and dig for a whole minute. Now I don’t even see them crawling around after a rain.
Another random fact: Global warming has ponds drying up in the summer that didn’t dry up even 10-years ago. Dragonflies take 2-years to mature underwater. Put that together and enjoy all the mosquitoes.
Good news! My efforts have brought frogs back to my yard. They were deafening last night! Hoping to have mature dragonflies next year, or barring that, 2-years from now after I get the 150g pond set up.
(I know that’s not what she’s talking about, just had to get a bit off my chest.)
I wish more people had your perspective
Literally talking to my wife today about how bugs on the bumper/windshield isn’t a thing anymore in 90% of places. It’s sad. Like you, all I see is death.
I know this isn’t quite the same but I’m getting Heavens Gate vibes. Not good.
So who’s gonna propose we bring back leeching and lobotomies first, this lady or captain brain worm?
RFK’s family is familiar with lobotomies.
Anybody who speaks about spiritual nonsense in conjunction with health matters is a quake and should NOT be surgeon general. Then again an anti-vaxxer is in charge of the CDC so I’m not surprised at that this point.
is she talking about global warming and people fucking up the nature? Isn’t that like extremely woke?
This is pure comedy. Let’s point and laugh at them until they go away
People laughed when leftists talked about the yoga studio to fascism pipeline…
In all seriousness this is utterly fucked.
Brown Esotericism was always a thing in Germany, there’s a german wikipedia page about it, psiram wiki has a chapter about “National Socialism and extremist right groups today” on their page about Esotericism.
This has been going on since the Third Reich and is one of the pipelines to bring economically better off people into right wing rethoric and thought patterns.
The herbal remedies / yoga / crystal gems people were always selling snake oil. No surprise that they’d get along with Trump. (Which is not to say all herbal remedies are worthless, but many are, and if you don’t believe me, have fun getting scammed. And yoga can do a lot for your fitness, yes yes, we agree.)
Yeah, there’s a big difference between “this herb has some naturally occurring anti-inflammatory compounds” and “this berry is a cure for cancer and lupus and the common cold.”
Regarding yoga, stretching and bodyweight exercises are definitely a good part of fitness, but the mystical side of it is complete horseshit.
I remember seeing a doTERRA ad some hon had put up at a Mexican restaurant. In English it said normal stuff about how aromatherapy helps with mood, maybe a vaguely defined “energy levels” but no legally defined health claims. En español it was literally claiming that the doTERRA oils could cure cancer!
Naomi Klein talks about this in Doppelgänger, and it’s really interesting. She argues, compellingly, that the yoga/spirituality/wellness types were never so much truly left-wing as they were counter to the medical establishment. Which wasn’t inherently harmful - yoga and meditation are good, and modern medicine doesn’t solve every problem. But then COVID came along, and it stripped away all the control these people felt they had over their health. And then it became revealed that they were never so much far-left as they were far out.
My mom died last year because she thought she could treat her cancer by “resonating with the world’s vibration.” Fuck this woman, and fuck the people who decided to put her in charge of healthcare.
Same thing here. Grandmother and uncle (early 40s) Blake, you died nearly two years ago now. The herbs and vitamin C were never going to save you. Cindy, not even a year yet. I can feel nothing but sadness and sorrow for the way they were decieved.
I fiirmly believe that people are doing badly and suffering because they don’t listen to themselves and their body.
If MAGA starts accepting its own body, they will get waay more powerful.
I’ll let my transplant team know it wasn’t new lungs I needed, and three people’s worth of blood and six months in ICU and three weeks on ECMO, it was just light I was lacking… silly me!
I’ve heard if you expose your perineum to the sun, it maximizes the benefit (and your odds of ass cancer).
Like they always said: Just get more sun! Touch grass! Its easy!
The lockdowns and subsequent vaccine drama turned a huge amount of previously assumed “liberal” new-age dumbasses into full-throated right-wing dumbasses. It was surprising to watch at first, but it makes sense when you think about it.
Is it because there’s a whole ton of people who are simply selfish?
No?
It’s basically just anti-academic.
If you can just invent arcane knowledge that only you know then you’re smarter than everyone and can do anything you like.
So selfish.
That makes more sense than what I was thinking before
Basically the whole contingent is anti-authority, and r’s were able to capitalize on that by feeding the pushback against vaccines and masks.
I believe you, but I don’t understand how. mRNA vaccines are basically magic.
*sufficiently advanced technology
thats the same.
