Modern medicine is nothing shy of witchcraft, it's incredible that people choose willingly to ignore it.
Its a miracle if insurance actually approves the claims tho for life saving medicine. The chemo patient doesn't need anti nausea pills, they can just throw up (double points if its a child) - a recent news story I read. Right now I'm waiting for my insurance to authorize use of med equipment at home for a bone stimulation medication, my collarbone isn't fully healed after 3 full months
They just believe that they should train their immune system to fight disease and use prayer to cover the rest instead of your black magic vaccines. Their opinion is that it works better and opinions can't be wrong. /s
Shout out to indoor plumbing yo
and your one random medical accident away from losing all that, in some uncivilized countries
Just like in the old days, even a king
Anon discovers gratitude.
they talked about it a lot in the residential treatment program i was in for two years
Chances are anon is or will soon be a wizard.
If you give a slave an iphone they are still a slave.
i suppose you're right. but they won't have anything to charge it with
I'm in an almost constant state of knowing and feeling this. The vast majority of people would call my life poor and bad, but I'm incredibly grateful and in awe of the things I have and get to experience. It's not easy though, because almost everyone around me has more and extremely few don't feel like spoiled brats that take everything for granted and just want more and more no matter who it hurts and the impact it has on our world.
Yes. We have gained wild material wealth relatively compared to a thousand years ago. However, we traded the shared community or village we had for the wealth.
I guess you're talking about like WAY back in the past, like even before Eridu (the first city). So that would be like pre-5000 B.C. Back then, I suppose the family and the community were stronger because you kinda had to be. You didn't have the option of disconnecting from reality like we do now
Not dying of a cold is neat and all, but I can't help but wonder if not knowing those things exist would be better then having them.
OP is the user of civilization. In which way is he the product if he has gotten those things essentially for free?
Amazing how awesome a little comfort is when you can just ignore others who don't have what you have, and ignore how little separates you from them. Injury, illness, mistakes, accusations, random layoffs... Its all so fragile.
For me, it's injury. I've been in a residential treatment program ever since I got a TBI in 2022
You're situation is far from what I was getting at, and a nightmare to 95+% of the people I intended to describe.
I haven't minded jail, in-patient treatment, nor any number of confined living/work situations, but I don't think that outlook lends itself to ignoring the suffering of others per se.
The suffering of others is one of the more overt ills of society that makes me appreciate a situation where I have a full stomach, a warm bed, and an extremely-confined combined-work-study-and-social-circle which I have little-to-no control over all-the-more.
The society outside of that, where suffering of others is acceptable so long as one is not forced to associtate with anyone-in-particular, is something its entirely moral to flee from imho.
Basically, your situation is almost the opposite of what I was complaining of, even though for most people its a situation that is only symptomatic of the narrow set of problems they find personally-inconvenient about the status quo. These are people who implitly have a problem with you or I getting to be being fed, warm, and detached from the zeitgeist they know, and/or even slightly happy, but they will also never admit it.
Far from all of that 95+% I mentioned in my first paragraph are like so, but is at least 60% of people-in-general, divided closer-to-evenly among, and therefore the majority members of, whatever tribes you could name ... and its extra stupid because the rest are just as invested in pretending the ones that agree with them somehow aren't the problem.
No, you see, its addicts, "psychopaths", "the other guys" and you or I that are the problem to them. Even though society would both fall-apart without us, and has no right to call itself society if it can't allow for us. We can't pretend those suffering don't exist as easilly as they, and our comfort away from those that can, with mixed-company no matter your criteria no-less, is anathema to their outlook.
Just being able to bathe regularly and not deal with parasites is really a big deal.
One little cut away from a horrific prolonged gangrenous death
Fucking Hannibal, one of the greatest military generals in history, died in exile in Assyria after he cut his thumb on his sword and went septic.
I've started showering every day because I stream on Twitch and TikTok Live and I don't want to look like a hobo
Right thing wrong reason :/
Maybe the finest improvement to our camp was adding an outdoor shower. Water's pumped into a 68G barrel with a few tiny chlorine tabs. Gravity drains nicely.
Just being able to easily wash my face and hands is a boon.
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