America the Cruel and Stupid
Decades of progress and a political agenda walk into a public health crisis.
In this very strange world I find myself inhabiting, a lot confounds me. The politics. The cruelty. It is a lot to be confronted with. Like others, I believe stoking that cruelty is the mission of men like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu. But their purchase is not design. They are taking advantage of an environment. The collective stupidity of the masses that has its roots in the gutting of education and the concentration of wealth, a two-pronged scourge fomented by social media and the people who see profit in promoting their own version of reality. This world order where whatever is happening right now constitutes universal truth, a sensibility reinforced by thirty-second Instagram stories - it’s not for me. Nor is Making America Healthy Again - the political kind.
MAHA is the result of a horrific merging of a coordinated campaign to misinform, coupled with ignorance hardening into social construct. Influencers are unregulated and their credentials are more often than not limited to being…
