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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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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Even if they live, they'll inevitably have a smaller voice than the more successful ones
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This ignores the importance of elders in Indigenous culture, which has very different definitions of success. Elders are respected for their knowledge and cultural memory, and "respect your elders" is how things work, not just manners, in many communities in the US.
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The notion that "Elders" as a class of ruler is foreign to western culture stems from forgetting what "Senate" meant
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