Dichotomizing Common Sense

The US is the land of dichotomizing common sense. Issues such as circumcision, universal health care and water fluoridation are 'hotly debated' here while such issues are non-issues in most other countries. It just seems we waste a lot of precious finite time and energy on distractions. This has led to a great stagnation culminating to the current horrible state we are in. I suppose this is a result of a corporatacracy that has greatly influenced the public's perception of the world to favor the few wealthy corporations. Perhaps our bickering about distractions isn't so much the cause of our stagnation, but is a result of having been ruled by corporations whose quest for money leaves many of us in horrible situations.

For-profit medical care has made circumcision a lucrative business for doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, cosmetic companies, etc. The amount of money to be made from foreskins is too much to pass up, and those in a position to profit from foreskins are either blinded from the realities of circumcision or are aware of them but just don't care. The same can be said about companies who make lots of money selling toxic waste aka fluoride to municipalities, health insurance companies who act as middle men and siphon money away from people and numerous other entities who are in the position to make lots of money in unscrupulous ways.

The pursuit of money makes us all more sociopathic. We are often more willing to look the other way or willing to suspend our belief of reality to make more money. If one is making millions from installing asbestos prior to it being banned by the gov't, of course the asbestos companies will do all they can to justify continuing profiting from selling asbestos. It took a law banning the sales of asbestos after many years of the known links between asbestos exposure and cancers to stop companies from selling it. I'm sure many things that are currently known to be hazardous to one's health such as BPA, teflon coated cookware, etc will eventually be banned, but only after many people have suffered all sorts of health issues for many years. It is unfortunate that banning toxic substances takes many decades while numerous untested potentially toxic substances are constantly introduced to the market. Trying to ban toxic substances is like trying to damn Niagara Falls with pebbles, but I suppose it's better to throw pebbles than do nothing.

So here we are in America where circumcisions, fluoridated water and privatized healthcare are the norm in spite of their known drawbacks which have prompted many countries to ban such things. Since these things are so normal for us, many of us have just accept them as good. It's amazing how corporations in America have convinced many people that the things that are harmful are actually good for them. It's hard to not be cynical of Americans as many have been socialized to believe in certain things that are go against their best interest. All I can do is act in my best interest realizing the world has set parameters where people will act a certain way and events will pan out as they will.