It’s a little bit gray, it’s a little bit chilly and maybe we’ll have rain. I guess we’ll have to wait and see on that, I’m not sure today.
As though I know the mind of the weather.
Thank you, Gail, for the coffee yesterday, and once again I found myself imagining a revitalizing break over a cup, with my brain finally, finally, waking up. I really appreciate it. It definitely perked me up!
And now Tuesday.
I said that with such confidence, as though I knew for sure what the next sentence would be, but instead I just spent an undisclosed amount of time scrolling, scrolling, scrolling and hoping for inspiration to strike.
Which, I suppose, it kind of did.
Because from that scrolling, I came again to a conclusion I’ve reached over and over and over again.
So many people are far too simplistic for the complicated modern world. For example, people who insist on drinking raw milk, because they choose to believe it’s the pasteurization that’s the issue, not all the dangerous microbes often found in milk that frequently sickened and killed people.
They take information and draw the entirely wrong conclusion. Because people don’t get sick from milk at the same rate, it must be that the milk is safer now than it was.
But it’s only safer now because…of pasteurization.
It’s the same limited thinking with vaccines. People don’t get certain diseases anymore, it must be those diseases no longer exist. Dying of those diseases, getting maimed by them was some kind of old-timey moral failing.
They were doing it wrong, or something.
Somehow they cannot make the connection that people don’t get those diseases as frequently now thanks to vaccines that prevent them being commonplace.
And because of that, diseases like measles and whooping cough are making a roaring comeback. They weren’t serious because medicine was different, or people were different, they were serious because they are serious diseases.
The best method of defense is prevention.
Same could be said about our current political situation but that’s a whole other discussion.
It’s is like people cannot put the most basic information together, which is compounded by them not only not knowing they can’t do that, but confident that they can.
Then coming out with an entirely wrong conclusion.
I’m not sure what the answer is for this, because I would have said more education but what we’ve seen is people enthusiastically rejecting education for simply living as though what they “feel” should be true is true.
People are making huge money on steaming sites sharing those “perspectives” with other people, and in turn, viewers treat that as “knowledge.”
It feels pretty bleak, frankly.
Over and over and over again, we have to learn the same lessons. Millenia repeating themselves.
Anyway, that’s it for me today, I hope you have a great Tuesday in which you’re met with only sensible conclusions.
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