Please forgive us.
You have to understand that old people really are toxic. We had terrible educations and health care during our lives and it has debilitated most of us.
We didn’t have choices. We didn’t have information. We read what was in our tiny local library. If we didn’t go to college, we never learned how to question everything we learned in secondary school.
Our information was super biased. We never heard about the accomplishments of black people or women. It was all lists of white men and wars. We didn’t think we would ever know some things. What was at the bottom of the ocean. Or Antarctica. Where the Titanic was. Climbing Everest was a big deal. Now all those things are tourist attractions.
While there was this vast information gap, our heads were filled with all kinds of bullshit. Some of it was well meaning bullshit, but most of it was money making bullshit.
There were lots of new manufacturing technologies. Plastic, plywood, sheet metal, screws! There were lots of new medical ideas as well. Coupled with the manufacturers, they were mass produced and sold to all of us as miracles. Antibiotics, orthodontia, antidepressants, CPAP machines, cholesterol testing cancer testing, sleep testing. Bariatric surgery. Ridiculous Diets Galore.
Doctors wantonly gave us antibiotics and indiscriminately destroyed our microbiomes.
They told us to eat carbs and cut out fat. They fed our microbes sugar for decades.
They told us to use sunscreen and stay out of the sun, and made us Vitamin D deficient.
Then they told us we were fat and tired because we were lazy and noncompliant. More exercise and less food. More pain, more gain.
They told us Herpes viruses were harmless because they went dormant. To ignore them.
Dentists went on and on about cavities, yet never mentioned gum disease until our teeth fell out. They moved them around, scraped and cut our gums- all without the proper antiseptic follow up care.
They gave us halothane gas and melted our blood brain barriers.
Hell, they cemented mercury into our mouths for decades, and still pretend that wasn’t a huge problem.
The medical industry experimented on us en masse. They were proud of themselves and expected our gratitude. They never said they were making it up as they went along.
They made us sicker and told us it was all our imagination. They told our mothers it was their fault. These men who never spent time with children… they told us children it was our mother’s fault too. Convenient, that.
And all the while our brains were clogging up.
People like me aren’t supposed to remember this. We shouldn’t be able to connect the dots. It’s supposed to be too late. I should have died of pneumonia by now, delirious in an obscenely expensive hospital bed. Where everyone blamed me for my own fate and nobody brushed my teeth…
Have mercy on us. We are prisoners of things we could not see. Even if we looked really hard.
