The antivax belief system and the "wellness culture" it comes out of is based on a falsehood created by modern medicine - the idea that the natural state of the human body is "wellness", that health is our birthright, and that sickness is an alien and abnormal intrusionhttps://twitter.com/lynsautigers/status/1334720273984131072 …
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That's really where we get a lot of cultural ideas about what it means to be an "elder" from, the way we say stuff like having a "council of elders" Elders were synonymous with the ruling class because if you weren't rich you weren't likely to get very old
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This is still a thing today, if a subtler thing The sense that old people are a wealthier and more conservative group than young people is driven by survivorship bias To some extent, it's not that people change as they get older, it's that the frustrated unhappy poor people die
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