It's what happens when a couple generations are spared the historical ratio of "bury 1.5 children for every 1 that survives past 12" and a group of deliberate assholes decides to make money off the phenomenon by spreading disinformation.
All these things like bird flu in the raw milk, resurgence of shit like rubella, the millions dead because of COVID denialism etc. All of them made a small number of rotten people very wealthy. In a just world they'd have their assets seized and they'd be locked in an iron box for social murder.
On a slightly less jocular note, I think it's also what happens when you use late capitalism to morph psyches into that of Homo Economicus, and the brain pedestal of hyper-individualism that gets erected to create The Consumer. "My dollar my choice" has knock-on effects, not the least being the eroding of a social framework that might have held some of this shit to account.
It's what happens when a couple generations are spared the historical ratio of "bury 1.5 children for every 1 that survives past 12" and a group of deliberate assholes decides to make money off the phenomenon by spreading disinformation.
All these things like bird flu in the raw milk, resurgence of shit like rubella, the millions dead because of COVID denialism etc. All of them made a small number of rotten people very wealthy. In a just world they'd have their assets seized and they'd be locked in an iron box for social murder.
On a slightly less jocular note, I think it's also what happens when you use late capitalism to morph psyches into that of Homo Economicus, and the brain pedestal of hyper-individualism that gets erected to create The Consumer. "My dollar my choice" has knock-on effects, not the least being the eroding of a social framework that might have held some of this shit to account.