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Dr. Lane’s Thoughts LXXXII
1) This topic will move around many subjects from people as they explore the world, supplements and healthy life choices, and faith (by which I mean religion).
Just to start, have you ever wondered why I write this blog? Is it for myself (no), is it for my family (they don’t read it), is it for the general public, possibly but my readership is in the middle double digits (worldwide so this is not a good number since there are 8 billion people in the world), so who do I write to? It is you. You are one of the few people who reads this so ‘thank you’.
I know someone who truly believes that her whole existence should center around ‘healthy living’ which includes a complete rejection of anything and everything that humans have found to be healthy through the years – modern medicine, foods, the earth, the sun, water, clothing, fabrics, cars, transportation, work, and so on.
Which is to say, unless it is on her terms and meets the criteria of what she decides is ‘healthy’. She spends every day finding new ways to be ‘healthy’ and rejecting all things she considers to be ‘unhealthy’. She also uses any moment to proselytize to anyone who can hear her voice about her new discoveries and how unhealthy their lives are in comparison.
This works for her because she seems to have a job that affords her enormous amount of free time and high pay so she is never encumbered by bosses, deadlines, or work demands where so much time to devote to this obsession must take a secondary role in her life. No, she can do this almost every minute of every day.
So, she has beliefs, rules, dietary restrictions, and leaders that she follows for their ‘superior’ ways of thinking and doing.
As an aside, I grew up in a Jewish kosher home. We also had beliefs, rules, and dietary restrictions. They were my life and I didn’t really care much because my mom (my only parent upon the death of my father when I was six months) made it fun and easy. I did it because mom did it. I eased up the dietary stuff when I was around 18 but kept a few. I understand following things for the sake of continuing a set of traditions.
Now, why would I bring up this subject of being Jewish (which, probably none of you are)? After all, I am writing about someone who is devoted to their HEALTH and healthy living and I just veered off to write about my own past RELIGIOUS beliefs.
But I didn’t change the subject; these are the same thing. This person treats this newfound (10 years now) faith and devotion to health as her religion. She is constantly evangelizing to everyone the message “I am right in what I do and you are wrong in what you do’. She pities people who can’t or won’t follow her new faith and informs them that they are ‘killing themselves’ with their lifestyle choices. She brings her own food to events and won’t eat what other people serve.
As we all know, sharing food is a way to show other people we like them and care about them. It is part of the social contract that we include other people in food-sharing as much as possible because we want to show love and caring. That swings both ways. ‘I serve you food and you eat’ is the rule. You are welcome not to eat everything but you should eat something’. If a person rejects this offer while substituting their own food or only extending invitations to their own place the only message is ‘I am right in what I do and believe and you are wrong’.
To further this incongruity, she also changes her beliefs constantly based on the newest thing she has read so keeping up with her is always a process of ‘checking’ to see if her view on this food, liquid, or supplement is still current in her life.
This way of life for her is expensive and time-consuming as she drives to this farm or orders from this vendor, all of whom claim organic, extreme cleanliness, and better ingredients.
Along with this complicated belief system is her dependence on the unregulated (read that again UNREGULATED – no rules, instructions, government agency oversight) world of supplements. Expensive bullshit that claims (on the label) to be legitimate, healthy, and better for you. A majority of these products are sugar, salt, and modified candy without containing any of what they state you are paying for. They are legally following the rubric “let the buyer beware”.
She also buys expensive pseudo-medical devices like brown sunglasses to be worn indoors to protect her from light bulbs, red-light devices to heal your body, and other things that come with advice written by the manufacturer and unsupported by anyone else. Just to be clear – I think everyone should avoid anything where the only literature for the purchase is connected to another person’s income.
What she doesn’t take into account is that she is young, healthy, and beautiful because of her genetics and her brief time on this planet. Outside of being considerate as to her lifestyle, nothing she is doing makes any difference. Rejecting modern medicine as the enemy with the concerted goal of misleading the public (a concern she has loudly and clearly pointed out repeatedly) is plainly stupid.
Medicine is a world of highly-educated scientists and medical professions who strongly regulate the behavior of each other with internal dissension and arguments for the foregone conclusion that they are all together to make the world safer and healthier.
Nobody, no matter how well they are paid, is trying to be evil. Even the ‘worst’ ones, those paid for by pharmaceutical manufacturers or on the payroll of large hospital centers with profit motives, wants you to be sicker and die earlier than you have to.
One of the key things that differentiate scholarly medicine and the industries that this woman relies on is training, education, peer-review, and internal criticism – the things and products she advocates have none of these things. Everything they do is based on beliefs, anecdotal ‘evidence’ and something they have ‘discovered’ or ‘invented’. Basically, it is religion.
When these same attributes are applied to religion, especially ‘new’ religions or off-shoots of established religions, they are called ‘cults’.
She has placed herself into a cult, self-contained and insular as it is. My wife and I will be scolded and given foods and devices until this woman tires of the restrictions or something new comes along to distract her.
2) Nobody is working for you because you have a cute ass. Or some kind of talent. Or because you have a ‘dream’.
No one should be paid a tiny rate of pay because you think that their spouse is well-off and will support them while they work for you (e.g. subsidizing you) or the employee doesn’t deserve the job and should be paid very little.
If you can’t pay your employees well because your business doesn’t make enough money then close it – it is unsuccessful. If after six months it isn’t doing well enough to pay your employees a reasonable pay then close it. It was a failure.
If you are doing well and not sharing your good income with your employees by paying them better then you are a wretched capitalist and your employees should walk out on you. If enough people ‘don’t stick around’ or ‘find another job’ ask yourself why this is happening (hint: it was probably the pay).
Worse, if you are doing well and flaunting your lifestyle in front if your underpaid employees then you deserve to have a karmic moment as your fancy car get sideswiped or your expensive possession gets stolen or lost.
3) Why go to college? It is expensive and it may not lead to better jobs or opportunities but it will definitely lead to debt.
I write that as a person with too many degrees (BA, MA, MPH, DC, PhD). When I write something about my reflections on education I come from a place of observation allowed to very few people.
There are two approaches to getting an education and both are the wrong use of a college education: it is a trade school to learn skills desirable to an employer (you lose your humanity and you diminish the purpose of your teachers to just skilled managers who train you for the workplace without letting you explore other interests you may want to explore) or as a place to explore the humanities and learn what other people through history have seen the world through literature, art, and cultural exploration (there is no way that these skills equate to skills necessary to get and keep a job. How do you intend to get and keep a job?).
There are only a handful of real skills that college should teach you: how to read and write well in communication and how to get along with other people who also go to college. If you fail to seek and gain these skills then no matter your training you will fail in whatever workplace you end up in.
High school does not train you very well in reading and writing anymore. It used to – during my parent’s early life in the 1930s and 1940s in the days when the women who taught were better educated than the students has been gone for 50 years.
Those women were limited to very few professions so the very best educated women who became teachers (who were very knowledgeable about grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and penmanship) created very smart young men and women. Those same kind of women would never have stayed teachers in the 1980s and after that – they became highly paid in other professions leaving very few good ones to educate high school students today.
Today, teachers tend to be only slightly more educated than the high school students they (badly) teach (very true in the inner-city). The only way to lure smart people back into teaching in the inner-city is extremely high salaries with the hope that POC will teach young students of the same POC. Newark, NJ has a starting salary of $65,700 to start!
Even with this incentive it is still better and safer for the same candidates to become police officers (starting salary of $125,000). At least as police officers they have the support of their colleagues and superiors; teachers have to struggle with their colleagues, supervisors, parents and, of course, the young people who don’t want to be there.
That other thing I wrote about – getting along with the other people in college is a training ground for the ‘elite’ who are willing to take on the cost of college and need to be oriented to the people they intend to surround themselves with for the rest of their lives.
For example, no matter how much you may want to understand Brazil or Russia you can’t really understand them if you don’t speak the language or live in the countries. This is the same about college.
There have been many instances of White scholars of Black Studies who have had to face the truth by their colleagues that they will never understand the Black experience in the United States no matter how much they read and write on the subject. I think that the Black scholars are right no matter how much it is unfair. Also, yes, Black professors of literature and White-centric studies are fine because those Black scholars are surrounded and raised in a white-dominant country that has imbued all American culture with a Eurocentric bias. Plain facts and you are welcome to argue with me.
Since I have been through the grinder of college and learned what it is about I have concluded that the only good education you can receive are the hardest ones: medicine and engineering. Tough topics that change lives and make the world a better place.
People will mention Law but Law is of two levels: defending basic tenets of property and contracts (and creating them) or learning to lie on behalf of a client for the sole purpose of getting paid. For most people who pursue law it is an escape from realizing that your weak humanities degree won’t lead to any employment worth having. I am sorry to tell the children of elites but Muffy, Adam, and Tyler that job Mom and Dad gave you with the family business wasn’t based on your superior intellect.
College has an uncomfortable side-effect: it will separate you from the people you grew up with as your education teaches you things that will cause you to question the beliefs, ideas, politics, and religion of the world that you grew up with. You will have less in common with the people you grew up with and everything you say and read will make both you and them uncomfortable
Not getting an education is a safe way to stay with the people you are familiar with and don’t want to hurt with new ideas. This is the core of the MAGA movement. All of those elites who show loyalty to Trump because they see opportunities in politics or business that they think he can produce for them are not the base who voted him in. It was the angry uneducated people who have a very narrow focus on local events and distrust outsiders; constantly in preparation for race wars, on the hunt for illegals who ‘will take their jobs’ and scared of anything that will bring change to their White world of neighbors and friends who are, mostly, White.
There are, of course, colleges who teach their subjects solely in the confines of a specific religion. Examples are Baptist colleges (Link), Jewish Universities (inside of the US there is the one in NYC called Yeshiva University for the undergraduate studies. There is a Woman’s college and a Man’s college. Yeshiva also has 2 graduates schools that are NOT religion-base, Cardozo College of Law and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine). These school try to insulate their students from outside points of view contrary to the upbringing of the students.
Life is easier and more comfortable if you are not asked to make any changes to yourself. Success comes from change.
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