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Common Sense 2020 Health 2020 and Beyond
From Caterpillar to Butterfly in our sickness~health paradigm Why so many struggle to progress from caterpillar to butterfly
The EASY part is outlining the normal-natural evolution of our mainstream illness~health paradigm.
The HARD part is explaining why so many people struggle to embrace the new paradigm.
First the EASY part…
2020 is a year of cultural change. Among these is our mainstream, public paradigm of sickness~health. A large fraction of people, perhaps still not a worldwide majority, have evolved from Old Paradigm 1.0 to New Paradigm 2.0. Specifically…
Antique Mainstream Paradigm 0.5 (pre-history to 1830)
Human beings have no agency whatsoever for our wellness and illness. Wellness and illness are primarily up to the gods, a mystery of “humors” we can neither access nor work with practically. Our sickness and wellness is out of our hands, up to the Gods.
Old Mainstream Paradigm 1.0 (1850–1955) (caterpillar stage)
Some external agency can be identified: Germs cause all disease, a different germ for each disease. Mankind at war with Nature and at war with germs. “All germs must die.” Cleanliness-sanitation…
