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Ignorance pt I - Revisitation

Posted by jd420 on Friday, September 06 2019 at 00:43:44AM

I hear from a lot of folks, not all of whom are guaranteed to know about each other...

Some may remember a post about the STD hoax. A few were wondering if I was mortally offended... nah. It's just the case that when something is kicking around for a while, and a distantly-related stimulus pops up, it will usually kick that something off. Standard, cross-genus psychology.

I am definitely doubling down, however, because I'm not a moron. Or, more accurately, not universally so.

Let's take syphilis as our case example. The initial pamphlets included pretty much only things that were not directly amenable to unmodified home imaging, and this is no exception. It requires reverse-lit microscopy.

If you're wallowing in syphilitic pus because "we're not having sex," you're... a god-damn moron. Most cases worldwide are spread by nonsexual casual contact (which spreads it just fine), and the most common means of transmission in a hollywood medieval village would have probably been the town well handle. Nexus centralization is the greatest plague threat - always - and silencing, running a european-style city, which is frankly a dumpster with poor sanitation even today (and a population centralization), and maybe corticoid-induced immune suppression frop induced stress, depression, and shame fill out your major tier-II categories.

Nahopi, no?

It seemed like a decent enough idea. The medical populace, who probably had about the equivalent of a high-school education (and most first-graders who couldn't pull off a half-decent microbial growth and examination are institutionalized or in home care, not grade school) get a quick primer on medical imaging and the like and a pamphlet about things that won't show up in a standard swab-and-identify. And the populace - well, sex sells, right?

What actually happened was quite different : if you tell someone that a nonsexual disease is sexual, a fuckton of useless abuse will induce them to avoid testing and treatment.

Nahopi. Still want to reinforce the status quo against facts, Baldur? Why?

"Clever" tricks of the left hand... often work out like this. What one robs for one's genius ideas will usually come back - and in fact, any alteration, loss, or distortion will be represented somewhere in the system.

This may not have been deliberate sabotage, but it is definitely sabotage. And it's all based in "I know better than you" (which may be locally true, but is never universally true), "therefore I am going to lie to you" (a loss) "and/or manipulate you." (a loss).

Its end result, of course, is cancer. What was intended as a medical drive with fairly good intent created erotophobia, which eventually led to a "wart divination" of virginity which does not work (pretty much all strains of HPV are contracted environmentally and "genital warts," which are not a strain, are equally common in sexually active and non-sexually-active persons), and with it, denial of vaccination to males (which has no excuse), absence of infantile vaccination (which may or may not be justified by the absence of safety testing, and the fact that no one knows is a moral crime, but which cannot be otherwise justified for a wholly-environmentally-contracted-illness)...

...and, of course, the morbidly funny bits; a (partial, crippled) variance in cancer between center-right 'liberal' persons, and erotophobes who also believe in a nonworking "wart divination" and yet still somehow think "just die of cancer" is a good idea.

So, yeah. While the political weaponization of idiocy to its safest possible end is morbidly hilarious, it's also kind of, well, morbid, and despite the small chance that it's a self-solving sort of engineering across a few centuries of variance... it's still part of the death toll of the original pamphlet.

And it wasn't even ill-intentioned. It was merely structurally wrong.

Speaking of "structurally wrong," baldur's "keep the status quo solely for the sake of keeping the status quo" - especially as he phrased it, that veering from the path of destruction will bring destruction - is always wrong. Think of the theory of evolution - whether you believe in it or not, although how you think that anyone but Lazarus, depending on your religion, is breeding after they're dead is beyond me, even if some of the derived concepts are more of a concept of personal opinion.

Actions so unintelligent and foolish as to be comprised wholly of literal random accident drive progress forward, while stasis, basically, is death (and usually is).

The chance of humans doing worse with considered action and without equivocation of distorting pressured is fairly unlikely, especially when they are doing their best ideas as many and the cream rises to the top. Collective decision theory plus evolutionary selection - here without relation to species differentiation for those that will be dying of cancer contracted from dirt or grass in the next few generations. ;)

In fact, the only way to do wrong, historically, is the "great master/suppressed many" model, brought to us by the great white invader. Again, collective decision theory and suppression, coupled with the psychological distortions of being a great master, while pretty much universally suspecting you're actually just like anyone else, which is true.

It's another axiom - actions taken for reasons and rewards other than the overtly-stated one tend to be destructive. The reward circut being listened to is different, so...

The master-and-suppression model does even worse when it is totally fucking corrupt, of course. While y'all were having a militarized crackdown on the menace of cannabis, antibiotics were completely uncontrolled - and while you've been running around taking guns from felons (in the US, and there is no "except for commission of a crime" in the text, btw), your entire agricultural meat industry and a good chunk of your hand sanitizers for a while were focused on weaponization. Penicillin use as an antibiotic is documented for 10-20,000 years easily... but when our "great white masters" get a hold of it, a broad swath of the microbial populace of the world was weaponized and treatment resistant... in under a century.

They were interested in other personal emotional rewards, which were more important to them than the profoundly horiffic death of everyone on the planet. On the off chance that I start slipping non-persistent warheads to some of the disaffected to defuse as small crisis what is structurally a much larger crisis at the god-damn brink, don't you dare bitch at me.

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(also, one of the most aggregious acts of terrorism is a selection of some of the worlds' largest chemical warheads which, last I checked, was pointed directly at the hawai'ian native population. I suggest coastal enclaves on the mainland in isolation and active communication, literally as a backup replacement... the wildlife devestation, that I don't know how to get around.)


jd420





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