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Hi Betsy, from Andy, in a small part of England known as "The Black Country".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country

I also refer to "germ theory" as "the disproven germ hypothesis".

That article was deep, good, but deep.

Starting with the question; "why do we get sick?" My current thinking is that (barring natural disasters) all diseases are simply diseases of civilization. I'm using the word "civilization" to describe "organized densely populated settlements, with people subjugating nature".

If I add; "& other people" onto that description we seem to be on a similar page regarding society, however I'm not that optimistic regarding "waking other people up" as it seems they do love their servitude. It was Gothe who wrote "The greatest enemy of freedom is a happy slave".

Here's a precis of a discussion Jeff Strahl had somewhere on substack, it articulates what I see around me;

"Lots of people are idiotized by living in modern society, unable to pursue a coherent thought for more than a few seconds or retain information for more than five minutes, but worse are those who just don't want to hear anything which disturbs them and challenges what they know (the mythology that was embedded deep within during their formative years), or challenges those upon whom they depend for; "the truth".

These people habitually choose not to think critically, but instead choose to believe whatever they're told to believe.

In their world saying the, "right thing" matters more than intellectual honesty."

Those who choose to live outside the control grid will manage to, but they will have to learn from history that they risk violence from the state as the 17th century "Diggers" & 20th century "Crusties" found to their cost.

As you correctly state Betsy; "Question everything". And to paraphrase Tom Cowan; "Question what you know & HOW you know it. Think for yourself & think clearly. It's better to know something, rather than to simply believe it".

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