Coming to my mind is Edmund Burke…something like if you can’t self govern you need a more powerful government.
Thinking of health, we’re at the point now where the apparatus has become so polluted by bad food that we need increasingly invasive methods to address health, and we are seeing the young get less healthy at earlier ages.
Then you have the general dumbing down of information into bits that are designed to get people to emotionally react. At the same time, you have a greater number of people turning to podcasts and alternative news sources to get more nuanced and deep information.
You have some getting sicker and sicker, and others becoming healthier and healthier.
Where you want to be is more people getting healthy.
John Tilden, a hardcore doctor in the 1900’s said once of politicians basically that how can they be effective when they are drinking and smoking? Remember, this is 1900s. Cigars, drinking, parlors, nefarious plots–they all went together.
You can’t be reasonable if you are doing unreasonable things to your body. Nor can you be reasonable if you are ingesting unreasonable ideas, such as the kind you find on shallow and glib mainstream media.
Look, I’ll tell you. I have my own problems. Life can be really challenging and I love how Jordan Peterson says it’s not reasonable to ask why people use drugs, more but reasonable to ask why they don’t.
There are reasons aplenty in this life to indulge in escapes of consciousness of varying degrees, whether a coffee, sugar, alcohol, or marijuana…and on and on.
But the underlying theme of the system needs to be one of supporting health. We need to accept each other for where we are, are basically not much more than a product of nature and nature, with very few making big leaps in development in one lifetime.
We the products of systems. And it turns out these systems might not be set up all that great now. While we get charged up over the vaccine or masks, there is a whole interconnectedness that is making us increasingly vulnerable and exposed.
We’ve forgotten that we live in a physical world. Instead we’re buried in our phones and scrolling algorithm feeds that tug at our emotions and flood us with dopamine.
So what do we do?
Repent. I don’t know any other word to use. We need to atone for what we’ve done to ourselves and what we’ve allowed ourselves to become.
No one consciously picked up a smart phone and said, “Hey, wait a minute. I don’t think we’ll like the type of people we become if we use this thing wrongly.” It was holy shit! This things got a screen and I can fondle it…let’s go!
Repent for what we’ve done to our food supply. Eating matter instead of food and thinking, yeah, we’ll be OK. Drinking sugar by the bucket and the grease from fried foods dripping down our chin while we wash it down with caffeine, all day long.
Again, I’m no saint, but I’ve definitely done a good job moving on the self-control continuum and stay pretty fit and healthy.
What helps me most is simple frameworks and continually working to apply the principles of the laws of health and wellness. I adopt the advice of people like Tilden and the Braggs and Bernarr MacFadden…people who have done it.
Until we learn to take care of ourselves, we cannot take care of others and we cannot take care of our environment.
That’s just the way it is. It’s the logical progression. Get yourself on surer footing and work to make your head clear and your bloodstream less and less polluted.
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