Why Is Natural Health No Longer Valued?

Science fiction? Advertising? Propaganda? A poll.

I was always a big fan of science fiction and watched Star Trek TOS (The Original Series) in high school before The Next Generation came out my senior year in 1987. I’ve been enjoying Strange New Worlds (far better than Star Trek Discovery), but I’ve noticed a definitive shift in tone in the writing from TOS.

Episode 2 of season 2 of Strange New Worlds, in my opinion, was an overly melodramatic courtroom drama attempting to lamely equate laws against genetic engineering with the civil rights movement.

The laws against genetic engineering were created in response to the genetically engineered superhuman, Khan (originally played by Ricardo Montalban), who tried to rule the world with his supposedly superior self.

In old episodes of Star Trek, or movies like Gattaca, we were given cautionary tales about genetic manipulation. These stories often involved the abuse of genetic modification, and how it could result in discrimination against people who were not modified but natural.

But not today. Today, we’re told we shouldn’t “discriminate” against the genetically modified. That any laws against genetic modification are somehow “encouraging hate.”

It used to be that science fiction warned us about the dangers of technology while also showing us its promise.

Now, science fiction is often written to apologize for technology - or worse, prime us for the dystopian future.

Thus, I thought the Strange New Worlds court case - trying to whitewash eugenics - was the worst episode of the bunch. It over simplified a complex issue and used emotions to manipulate the audience.

But this Star Trek episode from 2023 was written to please the modern Western audience, an audience that, for the most part, no longer exhibits any caution about new and potentially dangerous medical “treatments.”

These days, often extreme Western medical interventions - from drugs for emotional issues to endless plastic surgery - are in high demand. Those of us who caution against an overreliance on drugs and surgeries and vaccinations are lambasted as being backwards yokels who are standing in the way of progress.

I’m just wondering what happened.

Why did women rush to get Botox, knowing that it was made up of a neurotoxin?

Why did people line up to get mRNA vaccines when they had never been used before?

Why do people turn to pills now to deal with emotional issues?

I just saw yet another pharma commercial, this one pushing a new anti-anxiety medicine. The woman in the commercial was initially saying she was holding off on taking medication, but once she took the so-called “miracle pill,” everything was fantabulous!

Commercials are surely a big reason why people are so quickly turning to Western drugs and interventions:

And when people do discover herbs, the media is quick to try to scare people away from them with stories like this one, hyping up alleged ashwagandha side effects such as “vomiting” and “dizziness” and “sleeplessness” (huh?):

Even stranger, these folks are seriously trying to claim ashwagandha causes a flat emotional affect too? GTFO out of town. Do you see stories like this about anti-anxiety drugs? Nah.

If your anti-depressant isn’t working, we have another pill for you:

This dependence on pills, medicines, and surgeries has even infected the so-called holistic world, and in particular, you’ll find your average yoga teachers and yoga therapists doing their darndest to give away their power to pharmaceuticals and Big Medicine.

Why?

I can’t quite claim to understand this, because people weren’t this gullible in the 80s and 90s. So what happened? Here’s the poll:

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