A guy I went to school with who preaches organic only diet has started spouting anti-vaccination bollocks.
Quote “if only you knew what they put in those vaccines” as if a fucking pub worker from rural Lincolnshire who achieved the total of 3 GCSE’s and spells guinea pigs “guni pigs” is going to know the contents of a vaccine that 2 billion are apparently blind to see. What a prize wanker.
hahahaha, guni pigs
This is the point. There are reasonable debates on the issue of vaccination. But at the moment, people who want to raise issues are effectively going to lump in with braindead adults who are motivated by unresolved issues from their childhood.
Someone said to me the other day, the way to think of it is that Life has been soft on them in that regard. In previous eras, they might have had no choice but to comply, as we were a lot less liberal back then. And the price of not complying, or even not understanding the world and being suspicious of people trying to do essential work could have meant death or poverty. But humans have succeeded in many fields, and in the process, we've learned how to make life easy, hard to really screw up, no matter how ridiculous your attitude is. It gives people false confidence.
Boy oh boy. That's pretty much the summation of all the efforts in social psychological political theory of the twentieth century - liberal democracy, capitalism, meritocracy, liberalism... telling people over and over again - they are the thing, it's all about them, what they think matters, they know best what's good for them.
And now, we're in trouble, because they believe it. Can't tell them anything! Getting round that is going to have to be a gentle process. Softly softly, lobotomise angry monkey. But only so they can have the essential, safe, trivial, painless treatment, and live happily ever after.
