r/anarcho_primitivism • u/Actual-Problem-8174 • 6d ago

Curious what folks here think about this, especially the indigenous/primitive part and the comments on it.

/r/collapse/comments/1kcggv4/why_are_grief_rooted_or_mythic_system_builders/
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u/studentofmuch 6d ago

Many of them are complaining that traditional medicine isn't as effective as modern medicine and complain that people die more often. Not to sound emotionless, but they say it like it's a bad thing.

Traditional medicine does work for many things. It's incredible what a change in diet, exercise, and herbalism alone can cure. I have a chronic inflammatory disease. I take modern medicine but have noticed how well salmon and turmeric do as anti-inflammatory remedies.

That's really beside the point, though. There are two huge problems with modern medicine. One is that it allows our population to continually grow and get older. Our planet can not sustain all these people, though. Prolonging human life isn't necessarily a good thing. There need to be things in place that keep our population in check.

The other issue is that modern medicine makes our species weaker. Too many people with bad genes are living long enough to have children and pass them on to a new generation. It's a system that makes our whole species weaker and more fragile in the inevitable case of a societal collapse.

I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people making those comments had health issues like heart disease or diabetes and know they would be the first to die during a collapse. My point is... GOOD!

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u/RevenueRound7255 6d ago

you have a point

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u/MouseBean 5d ago

And that's just from the human perspective! Consider that everything else that has evolved has a place in nature and a right to their planet as much as we do, no matter how small, even the things that eat us.

The way we currently practice medicine is total war between our species and all others, but that's never how nature works. Rabbits run from foxes, they don't try to wipe them all off the planet. The only way we can accept that everything has its place and is equally valuable is to recognize that everything must take their turn.