When I say “cult” what I mean is an organized system of thinking that works against your interests.
By every measure, we live in a dangerous cult, but most people are unaware because they think of it as their culture, as normal life, or just as ‘how things are and should be.’
But Consider the evidence. Are most people happy, content, healthy, and living into their best selves? Or are most people obese, unhappy, anxious, diseased, distracted, and/or possibly even depressed or demoralized?
The answer is clear, it’s mainly the latter set for most people.
Infuriatingly, most of those substandard outcomes are actually by design. Our trio of Big Food, Big Pharma, and Big Medicine are all merrily conspiring to make us that way and they have been for many decades. It’s nothing personal, they really don’t care or ever think about you at all, but they do care about the money you will spend on their ‘offerings.’
The Tucker Carlson interview with Casey and Callie Means is the starting point for this conversation today, but I build toward the conclusion by suing Dave Fairtex’s Easy-Hard framework.