"One of the greatest tragedies of our time is the number of people who are willingly turning their backs on tomorrow" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I will never understand this era.
Yesterday, my email and online browsing laid bare the vast contradictions in our world today.
The first was the Science and Technology newsletter I receive, which provides up to date details on the ongoing advances with medical science. It led to an article on recent advances with mRNA technology, which was, of course, the basis for many of the Covid vaccines of years ago. The article was discussing how researchers are on the edge of some amazing opportunities with the technology, including the potential for cancer vaccines, vaccines for rare and emerging infectious and chronic diseases, as well as opportunities related to longevity and overall healthcare and wellness. I marvel at the era we live within.
And then a newsletter from Dr. Eric Topol landed in my inbox. It featured an interview he did with another expert on medical science about her book around the reality of evidence based medicine, delving into such topics such as expert opinion, hunches (eminence-based) science to empiricism, and why evidence-based medical science is always the proven methodology for advancing healthcare.
Then somehow I came across a post about Joe Rogan and an interview he did with Terry Bradshaw and how he was whining about ivermectin and how pandemic vaccines were just a big conspiracy by big Pharma and it was all a plot to just make more money and how he knew more than they did ...followed by a a wonderful article from Paul Krugman, ex of the New York Times, that fit the theme perfectly, as to how the US was throwing away its future because things like advance science and green technology and electric cars and such were an affront to the macho culture and instant-expert reality that seems to permeate so much that part of the world today...
....and I wondered how many people believe someone who has not a smidgeon of scientific or medical background...and I wondered how society ended up in this looney-toons world where vast numbers of the population are actively and regularly throwing away the opportunities of tomorrow because they've been conditioned to come to believe the wing-nuts and conspiracy theories and the angry shamans and the populist frauds who tell them that the future is all some vast conspiracy and things will be better and great again if everyone just chooses to go back to 1950 to a different time and place where things were rosy and wonderful and white...
And I get sad.
Futurist Jim.Carroll doesn't understand why so many fall for fraud.