i feel like people don’t believe in simplicity anymore. like we need everything to be complex, studied, proven, backed by “science”, backed by an “expert”, or by someone else’s experience, knowledge or reasoning.
we’re at this point in humanity where you can’t say anything without proving that someone else has said it first, and i find that really strange + disconcerting.
it’s like we’ve forgotten that humans have successfully lived on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years without industrialized medicine, or science, or pharma, or modern industry.
but now we’re more prone to trust another’s word, experience, or expertise over our own lived experience. as if all of the sensations of our own bodies are lies, and truth only exists in popular opinion, or mainstream GroupThink.
we’ve invented new terms like conspiracy theorist and pseudoscience to label those who don’t fall in line with the dogma of the day. we believe tiny, invisible particles can destroy us, that we are always at risk of falling ill from a handshake, a hug or a conversation, but we can’t fathom the idea that all of this modernity has brought with it toxic loads that sit in our bodies like lead balloons, destroying us from the inside out.
we can’t fathom it because it’s so “easy” to eat this way, so “easy” to live this way, and besides, the people who sold it to us assured us of its modern wonder + health benefits galore. besides, corporations NEVER lie, especially not the big ones.
so if our bodies are collectively falling apart after eating + living this way for just over a century out of 250 thousand centuries [or more], it’s obviously couldn’t be the new additions to the world, to our diets + routines. no, that wouldn’t make sense. it must be the invisible particles that we’ve always coexisted with.
it must be the foods of our ancestors that have done the damage not the foods of factories + money-hungry corporations.
it couldn’t be that our bodies are struggling to deal with the onslaught of inorganic substances, chemicals, heavy metals, endocrine disruptors + hormone mimickers; it must be the cows.
it can’t be that our bodies are working exactly as they’re designed to, trying as best they can to detox from these New World toxins brought into existence + made abundant in our food supplies, personal products, and lives.
no, it’s more likely that our bodies are merely hoping against hope they don’t accidentally cross paths with an insidious microbial entity that will surely destroy them, even though 1 drop of seawater contains 10 million viruses.
so in today’s world, if you aren’t afraid of microbial evil geniuses, and you choose to eat the diet of your ancestors, if you choose to see the truth + wisdom in embracing the natural world that your lineage came from, and rejecting the overt toxicity of modern industry you are the conspiracy theorist, the quack, the extremist, and the irresponsible idiot.
“your lack of fear is what is hurting us all.” i never thought that “common sense” could be so fucking stupid.