Why Are Smart People So Ignorant When it Comes to Health

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Why Are Smart People So Ignorant When it Comes to Health, Vaccines and

Vitamin D? (Part Three)

Monday, August 17, 2009 by: Mike , the Health Ranger, NaturalNews

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Solutions

Ultimately, what's more important than teaching people nutritional knowledge

is teaching people the skills of thinking for themselves. A population of

independent thinkers would naturally embrace knowledge of nutritional

remedies and natural cures. They would naturally resist the FDA's pro-drug

propaganda, and they would be able to more readily recognize the value of

safe, effective and low-cost natural medicine.

The reason why this isn't happening right now in modern society is obvious

when you realize that people are not trained to THINK, they are trained to

follow orders.

This is especially true with doctors, where the art and craft of medicine

has been stolen away from well-meaning physicians by state and federal

bureaucrats who wish to centralize all the medical decision making. They

want doctors to be robotic enforcers of a centrally-planned medical agenda,

not local decision-makers operating with autonomy.

In today's health care reform debate, for example, all the big players want

to dictate to doctors how they should make their decisions -- insurance

companies, drug companies, state governments and the federal government.

Nobody wants to empower doctors with the ability to make reasonable

decisions based on human compassion and necessary medical care, because that

would cost too much (and it might not involve monopoly-priced

pharmaceuticals).

But it isn't only doctors who are taught to abandon independent thinking:

It's all of us. Through our conformist, dictatorial public education system

and incessant television programming, we are all taught to cast away

independent thought and conform with the masses.

Why we are genetically programmed to follow the herd

This tendency, in fact, is genetically programmed behavior among not just

humans, but many other species. It's actually a shortcut survival strategy

for quick decision making. If you're standing in a forest, for example, and

a stampede of 100 people run towards you, screaming in fear, you may not

know what they are afraid of, but in the back of your mind, your brain

concludes " Well, one hundred people can't all be wrong. I'm gonna run too! "

And you turn around and run in the same direction they are running,

oblivious to any reason why.

Following the masses as a decision-making shortcut pays off much of the

time, but it misleads us when the masses have been misdirected. And the

masses, it turns out, are incredibly easy to misdirect through propaganda,

advertising and deliberate disinfo campaigns.

In fact, I would say that on all the big issues of our modern society --

health, economics, the environment, politics, etc. -- the masses have been

deliberately misdirected to pursue beliefs and actions that serve only the

interests of those who covet profits and power. Thus, using the convenient

mental shortcut of following the masses in modern society is a sure recipe

for engaging in actions that betray your own personal interests. Much of

modern advertising, for example, could be accurately described as a campaign

to convince individual consumers to make purchasing decisions that go

against their own self interest. (This is especially true in the banking and

credit card industries.)

The situation has become so strained that it could even be argued the

smartest strategy is to do the OPPOSITE of what the masses are doing. In the

stock market, this earns great dividends for many " counter investors " whose

profits are extracted from the predictable investment decisions of the

easily-swayed masses.

In terms of health care, when the masses are lining up for swine flu

vaccines, the informed critical thinkers are skipping those lines and

heading for the health food stores to stock up on anti-viral herbs and

immune-boosting superfoods.

In the grocery stores, while the impressionable masses are committing a slow

processed-food suicide by purchasing toxic processed foods, the critical

thinkers are heading straight to the fresh produce section and loading up on

unpopular, health-enhancing natural foods.

In this way, doing what's intelligent is very often unpopular. Going with

the (ignorant) flow of the masses, however, is easy. It takes no courage,

nor thought, nor intelligence to simply do what everybody else is already

doing. What really requires some gumption is the pursuit of precisely those

well-informed actions that are unpopular with the masses -- or even derided

by them. " What do you mean you're not going to get a vaccine shot?

Everybody's getting a vaccine shot! "

False rationality

Many doctors, scientists and medical researchers like to imagine they are

the sole protectors of truly rational thought. And yet, upon closer

inspection, it turns they merely follow the same " group think " process while

hiding behind a scientific-sounding linguistic jargon used as cover.

Underneath the mumbo-jumbo, they are the same as the rest of the masses:

They go along with what the (scientific) group thinks for no other reason

than the group thinks it.

This is the reason why mercury fillings have persisted for so long in modern

dentistry, by the way. There's no sense to putting toxic heavy metals in the

mouth of a child, but it's just been done that way for so long that few

dentists bother to question it. Same story with chemotherapy: It makes no

sense to poison a patient and harm their vital organs as a " healing

therapy, " but it's been done for so long that it's simply accepted as

medical fact.

The layers of this false rationality go far deeper than you might suspect:

.. At one level, some individuals may believe that a false fact is real (such

as mercury fillings be safe).

.. At another level, there exists the meta-belief that the person's beliefs

are based in fact rather than fiction.

.. At a deeper level still, there exists the meta-meta-belief that the person

expressing the belief is an individual who exists separate from the other

people or elements in the universe. (The myth of the id.)

.. At a deeper esoteric level, there rests another persistent that the

universe in which all this takes place is " real " and not merely illusion.

(The " persistent reality " myth.)

And yet, the person subscribing to the false beliefs about mercury fillings

is, in reality, invoking a cascade of falsehoods about what they believe,

how they believe it, who is the container of that belief and the very nature

of reality itself.

As such myths are arranged in layers, dispelling them is often best

accomplished through a layers approach as well:

.. First, it may be useful to show them evidence that convincingly disproves

their top-level incorrect belief. (At this point, most people will simply

reject the contradictory evidence, but some will have their curiosity raised

enough to consider more questions...)

.. Second, by showing the mistake of their first belief, you can invite them

to question the accuracy of their entire belief system. This is essentially

inviting them to ask " Wow, how could I have ever believed that before? There

must be something wrong with the process I previously used to conclude that

was true... "

.. If you wish to take it further you can even invite the person to begin to

question who the vessel is that held those false beliefs, and you can begin

to peel away the false layers of the id and its obsession with separateness

and ego.

For those who make it that far, they can then gain a perspective from which

belief systems in the material world can be reconstructed or rearranged from

the core.

This is all pretty advanced stuff, admittedly. We can't reasonably expect

the masses to transform themselves into self-reflective enlightened beings

as a strategy for health care reform. Those who understand these concepts,

however, can at the very least strive for a persistent and gradual uplifting

of the consciousness of the human race as a worthy pursuit.

Because, let's face it: At its core, nutritionally illiteracy is not merely

about a lack of facts. It's actually a symptom of the unrealized potential

of human consciousness.

With greater consciousness comes deeper independent thought, and with

independent thought comes the natural tendency to recognize and value

knowledge while casting away falsehoods. This is the true pathway to wisdom,

and this is the corridor through which the human race must now pass if it

wishes to coexist with Mother Nature as a viable form of life on our planet.

About the author: Mike is a natural health researcher and author with

a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He is a

prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports

and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the

world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his

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promotes. In 2007, launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of mercury-free,

energy-efficient LED lighting products that save electricity and help

prevent global warming. He's also a successful software entrepreneur, having

founded a well known email marketing software company whose technology

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