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A sad, very sad reality
Western cultures believe in a the magic fix, the magic diet, the magic formula. One pill to fix to a problem, even if it creates 12 other problems, that is not a problem, there are 12 other pills to take. I call this perspective myopia - a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something, in this case, the bigger picture.
Lets not question how, as a society, we came to think that giving Statin to 8 years is ok. Lets not question how, in our a society, we have people called “scientists” who’s job is to find a pill that replaces exercise. How much more disconnected to our body can we become? A pill society, a society where the human body has lost any purpose. Applied any Darwinism, and in a couple of hundred of years, humans will look like, well, they will look awful.
In the news today “Why bother exercising? Take a pill. Here’s a couch potato’s dream: What if a drug could help you gain some of the benefits of exercise without working up a sweat? Scientists reported Thursday that there is such a drug - if you happen to be a mouse….”
Sad, very Sad!
