Why are we so sick as a society? I might be asking this of the United States, but my recent travels to Asia and other Western Hemisphere countries have shown me that other countries are under attack, too.
But what is it that is causing all this illness? The human immune system has been robust and powerful enough to carry us through dozens of millennia of plague, war, ice age, tectonic shift, Earth changes, mass extinctions. Why is it failing worldwide on such a grand scale, just now?
It is about the unfortunate dark side of untrammeled capitalism. In short, this philosophy supports the worship of wealth accumulation above ALL ELSE. All else, in this case, is human health, infant development, schools, infrastructure, a living wage for all, even, to be blunt, survival of the species! Our much touted health care system, constantly praised by the commercialized practitioners as the best in the world, actually produces results closer to those of third world countries.