Apr 5, 2022·edited Apr 5, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
I grew up in the '60/70 and it's true, everyday there was a man distributing unpasteurized milk to families and... in a glass bottle. Every drinkable thing was in a glass bottle, no cans, no plastic, from water to beer to coke. By the end of '60s the river was changing color almost everyday due to colorized textile industry in my home town. All little frog disappeared, no more fisherman on the river, but my dad bough a car, we had a b/w Tv set, fridge and electrical oven.
The economical boom of the 60s in Europe polluted rivers, seas, land. The Progress my friend...
Average people at that time had maybe not even finished Primary School. But mostly they owned their house/apartment. But couldn't understand what was going on. No culture of it.
My generation could study up to High School, but few went to University. Mostly they were the wealthiest but also many were the best in their fields. But in the late 70s we fought in the streets against the criminal power of Governments, wars, genocides, pollution.
Also during 60s in my country all cannabis fields disappeared, US asked to destroy them, to forbid the growth (it was drug.... pardon me? Ask Colorado now...), so US could sell us tons of cottons that wasn't as strong as cannabis. And most of all, it has no other use then wires, while Cannabis was also used for its great medical properties.
And so US Pharma could synthesize THC and TBD and sell its products to us, and make americans more rich than us.
Cannabis had also another wonderful natural use in agriculture: it was able to enrich the soil, so that farmers were alternating grain/corn cultivation with cannabis without buying fertilizer rather than organic one from their cows or horses.
Then the world start running "txs" to technology and chemical research and we had another great gift from US researchers: OGM food, OGM seeds, all patented all made to destroy agriculture and cultivation as we knew it. On the side of pharma products for agriculture there was the German Bayer that now owns Monsanto, but nobody as avoided the joint venture of two of the most dangerous companies in the food sector. UN, WHO? Just a bunch of criminals as they always have been since their foundation.
So as I lately ask here on Substack blogs: why americans didn't stand up, why americans have supported the destruction of the world as I knew it or made it happen without moving a finger?
There is a beautiful Latin sign in an old building, you can see walking in the street under the roof of this courtyard, it says" PANIS VITA - CANABIS PROTECTIO - VINUM LAETITIA " (Bread is life, cannabis is health, wine is social/fun"
That's the way I grew and I'm not envy at all of the younger ones.
It's so different from the older people today, taking multiple pharmaceutical products for so much of their lives. Many seem to be in a sort of haze, disconnected from the world.
As a child, I had breakfast with my great-great grandmother most weekdays until I started school, knew and had conversations with three of my great-grandparents, and three of my four grandparents lived past 90 (one is still alive at 100 this year). I had no idea until I was in college how unusual it was to have family members who had met Civil War soldiers.
Extreme age seems to be a function of nutrition, physical activity, attitude, and genetics. My parents have the genetics, but between their excess weight from a modern American diet, the addiction to constant fear porn from their favored MSNBC, locking themselves down due to Covid (not a lot of exercise last couple of years) and their dependence on pharmaceuticals (including vaxx boosters), I fear they won't make it the next couple of years to 80.
I was chatting with a friend the other day and she told me she was feeling stressed about her husband's health, and so her doctor put her on anti-anxiety medication. She is in her 80s and her spouse is, too! I didn't ask how many medications she was on in addition to that. I think there is an epidemic of purposelessness and loneliness among many of our elderly, and-- as with western medicine in general-- it's easier to try to suppress the symptoms than address the root causes. Thanks for the reminder that it hasn't always been like this. I'm with you. I don't miss the laws that would have made my marriage illegal and the customs that would have labeled my children "half-breeds," but we've thrown out the baby with the bathwater and come up with new levels of absurd anti-science to sow misery from cradle to grave.
"Is there a better world on the other side of all of this and how long does it take for us to get there?"
There is and that better world has been growing as the garbage system has been decaying. There are times where this better world takes a leap or two forward at other times it seems to grow slower. It seems to take it's biggest leaps after periods of intensified decay in the garbage system. We are currently in one of those periods of intensified decay. How long does it take for us to get there? Many of us are already there and trying to help it grow. That doesn't mean we don't see the garbage machine. It means we don't fit inside of it.
So yes things will get worse but they will get better too, much better. I think that you Monica and many, many more like you -- millions and millions are part of that better world and are planting the seeds to make that better world more prevalent tomorrow.
Amidst the darkness there is a light on the horizon. It is the rising rays of a new culture.
I remember back in 2002ish when an aquaintance became convinced that it wasn't the Saudi's who brought down three towers in NYC. She had every book ever written. She talked about it constantly to anyone who would listen. She made me think about and wonder how the 3rd tower could go down on it's own. But, back then some part of me understood how that was a huge rabbit hole to go down.
I follow all of the substackers every day. Have several books on 'pandemic'. Spend 2 hours a day, at least, reading and making notes.
Now I understand how sad, alienated, frustrated, angry, and lonely taking a position like that felt to her. She eventually got cancer, wouldn't see a doctor and died.....
Having balance in life is important. Take care, everybody.
Apr 5, 2022·edited Apr 5, 2022Liked by Monica Hughes PhD
Indeed, the mental sharpness of those oldsters stands out. They were mostly not deaf either! Now there may have been a selection for only the best and the brightest. After all the concept of senility as ‘second childhood’ is old. Also, were there not fewer of them? The rural village in which I live now has a remarkably high number of people living well into their nineties.
I moved back to the US from the UK late last year. One of the things that I notice here is the relative disappearance of the elderly. I assume most are in care homes or shut up in their houses. In the UK, the elderly are a visible presence everywhere. You see them on the bus, in the shops. Many seem to live quite independent lives. My allotment site was largely populated by people older than me (I'm in my mid-60s). The allotment neighbours on one side were in their 70s, behind me was a gentleman in his 70s. The man across the way was in his 80s. All out digging, sowing, harvesting their plots. It's also completely normal to see groups of elderly people out hiking in the countryside. Thanks for reminding me of what's truly normal.
There was a natural assumption that life, and lives-unborn, elderly, children, were valuable. No algorithms were employed to determine who should be allowed to live. When did we become Logan’s Run? My parents said it was the day Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton made abortion legal up to birth. I was 13 that year and started protesting in numerous ways immediately because I’d learned in public schools(!) that civilizations kill their offspring because they’ve LOST ALL HOPE. But it didn’t appear to be the case. Life looked like a big party in our universe. So why would women opt to snuff out the lives of their own kids? Was there an undercurrent of despair? Was the loss of a sense of transcendence a factor? How could “make love not war” segue into “I need to off my baby in order to get ahead in business”? One of my son’s high school buddies killed himself when he figured out that his mother had aborted a sibling around the time that, as a kindergartner, he started pleading with mom and dad for a little brother. She was about to be promoted at work. It was not just the loss of the sibling that pushed him over the edge. It was rather the realization that mommy’s love was capricious. It was sheer luck that he was living, and his brother had been sucked into a medical waste container. He was plunged into depression and no counselor could help because they’re mostly women who view abortion as a societal net good. He downed a bottle of benzos with vodka. Suicide is the #1 cause of death for the under 24 crowd. And as Monica has pointed out, suicide is now “medical care”! But how is it that people are unbelievably afraid of death (from a cold/flu?) yet easily turn to suicide, and vehemently call for the deaths of those who are sanguine with taking life (and death) as nature, Fate, or God delivers it? We have entered a Godless, post-Christian age where child grooming is taught by teachers on Tik Tok, but the unmasked and unjabbed and unapologetically traditional in outlook are quickly branded and ostracized, silenced. Did it start with abortion, or was abortion the result? Or a symptom of something larger? Why doesn’t anyone talk about the elderly who died in the nursing homes? Is it because nobody cared about them anyway? I’m getting my garden in too on this pretty sunny day while making lists of things I’ll need during the looming apocalypse. But these questions keep my mind unquiet.
Born in '51 in Appalachia ... honestly dont remember ever getting sick ...... live in Europe 30+ years and now I am blackmailed to pay a penalty for not being vaccinated... we are living in a very 'interesting' time.
BTW, Please link to Bitchute or Rumble or someone other than fascist YouTube -- there is no way I will use that site.
Thanks, you have a very good blog -- but pray for a Giant Comet -- because that would be the only 'reset' that would actually free us from our numbness.
Wasn’t the average life expectancy in 1920 like 55?
How about we just allow people to make their own medical decisions and stop forcing doctors to behave like mechanics with standardized solutions and no patient say in the process.
I grew up in the '60/70 and it's true, everyday there was a man distributing unpasteurized milk to families and... in a glass bottle. Every drinkable thing was in a glass bottle, no cans, no plastic, from water to beer to coke. By the end of '60s the river was changing color almost everyday due to colorized textile industry in my home town. All little frog disappeared, no more fisherman on the river, but my dad bough a car, we had a b/w Tv set, fridge and electrical oven.
The economical boom of the 60s in Europe polluted rivers, seas, land. The Progress my friend...
Average people at that time had maybe not even finished Primary School. But mostly they owned their house/apartment. But couldn't understand what was going on. No culture of it.
My generation could study up to High School, but few went to University. Mostly they were the wealthiest but also many were the best in their fields. But in the late 70s we fought in the streets against the criminal power of Governments, wars, genocides, pollution.
Also during 60s in my country all cannabis fields disappeared, US asked to destroy them, to forbid the growth (it was drug.... pardon me? Ask Colorado now...), so US could sell us tons of cottons that wasn't as strong as cannabis. And most of all, it has no other use then wires, while Cannabis was also used for its great medical properties.
And so US Pharma could synthesize THC and TBD and sell its products to us, and make americans more rich than us.
Cannabis had also another wonderful natural use in agriculture: it was able to enrich the soil, so that farmers were alternating grain/corn cultivation with cannabis without buying fertilizer rather than organic one from their cows or horses.
Then the world start running "txs" to technology and chemical research and we had another great gift from US researchers: OGM food, OGM seeds, all patented all made to destroy agriculture and cultivation as we knew it. On the side of pharma products for agriculture there was the German Bayer that now owns Monsanto, but nobody as avoided the joint venture of two of the most dangerous companies in the food sector. UN, WHO? Just a bunch of criminals as they always have been since their foundation.
So as I lately ask here on Substack blogs: why americans didn't stand up, why americans have supported the destruction of the world as I knew it or made it happen without moving a finger?
There is a beautiful Latin sign in an old building, you can see walking in the street under the roof of this courtyard, it says" PANIS VITA - CANABIS PROTECTIO - VINUM LAETITIA " (Bread is life, cannabis is health, wine is social/fun"
That's the way I grew and I'm not envy at all of the younger ones.
The mental sharpness is what jumped out at me.
It's so different from the older people today, taking multiple pharmaceutical products for so much of their lives. Many seem to be in a sort of haze, disconnected from the world.
As a child, I had breakfast with my great-great grandmother most weekdays until I started school, knew and had conversations with three of my great-grandparents, and three of my four grandparents lived past 90 (one is still alive at 100 this year). I had no idea until I was in college how unusual it was to have family members who had met Civil War soldiers.
Extreme age seems to be a function of nutrition, physical activity, attitude, and genetics. My parents have the genetics, but between their excess weight from a modern American diet, the addiction to constant fear porn from their favored MSNBC, locking themselves down due to Covid (not a lot of exercise last couple of years) and their dependence on pharmaceuticals (including vaxx boosters), I fear they won't make it the next couple of years to 80.
I was chatting with a friend the other day and she told me she was feeling stressed about her husband's health, and so her doctor put her on anti-anxiety medication. She is in her 80s and her spouse is, too! I didn't ask how many medications she was on in addition to that. I think there is an epidemic of purposelessness and loneliness among many of our elderly, and-- as with western medicine in general-- it's easier to try to suppress the symptoms than address the root causes. Thanks for the reminder that it hasn't always been like this. I'm with you. I don't miss the laws that would have made my marriage illegal and the customs that would have labeled my children "half-breeds," but we've thrown out the baby with the bathwater and come up with new levels of absurd anti-science to sow misery from cradle to grave.
"Is there a better world on the other side of all of this and how long does it take for us to get there?"
There is and that better world has been growing as the garbage system has been decaying. There are times where this better world takes a leap or two forward at other times it seems to grow slower. It seems to take it's biggest leaps after periods of intensified decay in the garbage system. We are currently in one of those periods of intensified decay. How long does it take for us to get there? Many of us are already there and trying to help it grow. That doesn't mean we don't see the garbage machine. It means we don't fit inside of it.
So yes things will get worse but they will get better too, much better. I think that you Monica and many, many more like you -- millions and millions are part of that better world and are planting the seeds to make that better world more prevalent tomorrow.
Amidst the darkness there is a light on the horizon. It is the rising rays of a new culture.
I remember back in 2002ish when an aquaintance became convinced that it wasn't the Saudi's who brought down three towers in NYC. She had every book ever written. She talked about it constantly to anyone who would listen. She made me think about and wonder how the 3rd tower could go down on it's own. But, back then some part of me understood how that was a huge rabbit hole to go down.
I follow all of the substackers every day. Have several books on 'pandemic'. Spend 2 hours a day, at least, reading and making notes.
Now I understand how sad, alienated, frustrated, angry, and lonely taking a position like that felt to her. She eventually got cancer, wouldn't see a doctor and died.....
Having balance in life is important. Take care, everybody.
Indeed, the mental sharpness of those oldsters stands out. They were mostly not deaf either! Now there may have been a selection for only the best and the brightest. After all the concept of senility as ‘second childhood’ is old. Also, were there not fewer of them? The rural village in which I live now has a remarkably high number of people living well into their nineties.
I moved back to the US from the UK late last year. One of the things that I notice here is the relative disappearance of the elderly. I assume most are in care homes or shut up in their houses. In the UK, the elderly are a visible presence everywhere. You see them on the bus, in the shops. Many seem to live quite independent lives. My allotment site was largely populated by people older than me (I'm in my mid-60s). The allotment neighbours on one side were in their 70s, behind me was a gentleman in his 70s. The man across the way was in his 80s. All out digging, sowing, harvesting their plots. It's also completely normal to see groups of elderly people out hiking in the countryside. Thanks for reminding me of what's truly normal.
Could someone explain the significance of the "1986 Generation"? What happened after that?
You can follow the vitality rabbit even further, check the work of Weston A. Price (https://www.westonaprice.org/).
Loved this one too! Read like a Sunday, newspaper column I used to read 👍
There was a natural assumption that life, and lives-unborn, elderly, children, were valuable. No algorithms were employed to determine who should be allowed to live. When did we become Logan’s Run? My parents said it was the day Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton made abortion legal up to birth. I was 13 that year and started protesting in numerous ways immediately because I’d learned in public schools(!) that civilizations kill their offspring because they’ve LOST ALL HOPE. But it didn’t appear to be the case. Life looked like a big party in our universe. So why would women opt to snuff out the lives of their own kids? Was there an undercurrent of despair? Was the loss of a sense of transcendence a factor? How could “make love not war” segue into “I need to off my baby in order to get ahead in business”? One of my son’s high school buddies killed himself when he figured out that his mother had aborted a sibling around the time that, as a kindergartner, he started pleading with mom and dad for a little brother. She was about to be promoted at work. It was not just the loss of the sibling that pushed him over the edge. It was rather the realization that mommy’s love was capricious. It was sheer luck that he was living, and his brother had been sucked into a medical waste container. He was plunged into depression and no counselor could help because they’re mostly women who view abortion as a societal net good. He downed a bottle of benzos with vodka. Suicide is the #1 cause of death for the under 24 crowd. And as Monica has pointed out, suicide is now “medical care”! But how is it that people are unbelievably afraid of death (from a cold/flu?) yet easily turn to suicide, and vehemently call for the deaths of those who are sanguine with taking life (and death) as nature, Fate, or God delivers it? We have entered a Godless, post-Christian age where child grooming is taught by teachers on Tik Tok, but the unmasked and unjabbed and unapologetically traditional in outlook are quickly branded and ostracized, silenced. Did it start with abortion, or was abortion the result? Or a symptom of something larger? Why doesn’t anyone talk about the elderly who died in the nursing homes? Is it because nobody cared about them anyway? I’m getting my garden in too on this pretty sunny day while making lists of things I’ll need during the looming apocalypse. But these questions keep my mind unquiet.
Born in '51 in Appalachia ... honestly dont remember ever getting sick ...... live in Europe 30+ years and now I am blackmailed to pay a penalty for not being vaccinated... we are living in a very 'interesting' time.
BTW, Please link to Bitchute or Rumble or someone other than fascist YouTube -- there is no way I will use that site.
Thanks, you have a very good blog -- but pray for a Giant Comet -- because that would be the only 'reset' that would actually free us from our numbness.
I really am wondering if Ron Santos would accept Kiwis as political refugees? Sigh…
Addendum: err, that should have been Ron DeSantis…
Wasn’t the average life expectancy in 1920 like 55?
How about we just allow people to make their own medical decisions and stop forcing doctors to behave like mechanics with standardized solutions and no patient say in the process.
This was a treat, thank you.