Yeah, but the thing is, is the ecological & individual physiological damage so much worse now than it was when we were kids? I mean, I was born in an age when my mom smoked and drank her way thru her pregnancy, my grandmother worked at an asbestos manufacturer, pesticides caused silent springs, acid rain destroyed lakes and forests, there were plenty of plastic goods and other synthetics like teflon in use, we ate plenty of junk food produced in factories 'that has machinery that processes nuts and nut products', and yet there weren't these widespread über-allergies and stuff...
I just find it odd that besides bottled water in plastic bottles, and a ton more electronics in the home giving off EM, there's not a huge lifestyle difference between then and know. Actually, all the residual pharmacologicals in the waste water leeching into the ground water is relatively new. But 'mommy's little helpers' have existed since the '40s... so is it just the grander scale on which everyone and their mother are taking fistfulls of pills? I dunno.
Bah. We're all doomed. I have a gaia rant brewing in me, but I just don't have the energy right now.
yes, but who knows at what point the damage began, versus when it began to be expressed in these symptoms? It might be damage that takes more than one generation to show up, damage that is cumulative, so that when genes (or other "stuff") get enough pollution/damage/exposure, they snap and then we see the problems.
And let's not forget genetically modified food, which I am pretty sure is a fairly recent addition, and is untraceable thanks to our government's policies...
For me, I see it as an "overall" pollution of the last 100 or so years, that is finally being expressed in the increase of dozens, even hundreds, of diagnoses and symptoms - perhaps made possible by the simultaneous sanitization of every surface, and other cultural changes - who knows? But for me, you just cannot look at the chemically enhanced, removed from nature, genetically modified lifestyle that most of us live and not expect some sort of impact. I mean, isn't that what evolution tells us? (and there are some who suggest that autism, and especially aspergers, are possibly useful evolutionary adaptations to our brave new world)
Of course, I have NO data or even links to back any of this up - more just throwing out my general sense from reading and listening and opining over the years...
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Date: 2009-02-20 04:08 pm (UTC)I just find it odd that besides bottled water in plastic bottles, and a ton more electronics in the home giving off EM, there's not a huge lifestyle difference between then and know. Actually, all the residual pharmacologicals in the waste water leeching into the ground water is relatively new. But 'mommy's little helpers' have existed since the '40s... so is it just the grander scale on which everyone and their mother are taking fistfulls of pills? I dunno.
Bah. We're all doomed. I have a gaia rant brewing in me, but I just don't have the energy right now.
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Date: 2009-02-20 04:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 04:25 pm (UTC)And I can't imagine he'd make very good beer.
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Date: 2009-02-20 04:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-20 05:23 pm (UTC)And let's not forget genetically modified food, which I am pretty sure is a fairly recent addition, and is untraceable thanks to our government's policies...
For me, I see it as an "overall" pollution of the last 100 or so years, that is finally being expressed in the increase of dozens, even hundreds, of diagnoses and symptoms - perhaps made possible by the simultaneous sanitization of every surface, and other cultural changes - who knows? But for me, you just cannot look at the chemically enhanced, removed from nature, genetically modified lifestyle that most of us live and not expect some sort of impact. I mean, isn't that what evolution tells us? (and there are some who suggest that autism, and especially aspergers, are possibly useful evolutionary adaptations to our brave new world)
Of course, I have NO data or even links to back any of this up - more just throwing out my general sense from reading and listening and opining over the years...
now to go find my tin foil hat!
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Date: 2009-02-20 06:01 pm (UTC)