Tyranny of the Old

 The more things change, the more resistance there is to the new ways -- even when they are far better.  Nowhere is that more true than in aging itself -- that many will affirm and insist that that is what getting old is -- and must be forevermore, even when modern thinking has discovered the true keys to health in longevity.  Many will still prefer the old ways of relentless aging and dysfunction -- to living a different life.  That is all they've seen and know -- and all they think possible.

Even in their best case scenarios, it is to deteriorate as long as possible to eventual indefinite artificial life support -- rather than renewal and rejuvenation as they experienced earlier in life.  Obviously, they won't get there following the advice and even commands that haven't worked out so well -- for anyone!  Still, that is the expectation -- if not the demand from everyone around them -- to just be like everyone else, and fall apart piece by piece.

But it doesn't have to be that way -- if it definitively is not working.  One then has to realize they have to find their own way -- and not just the way prescribed for everyone else -- that is not working for either.  And in fact, they all come down with the same predictable "age-related" diseases -- which are more accurately, just a matter of time to manifest.

Those are the metabolic diseases of accumulation -- of all that is toxic, while simultaneously eliminating all that is healthful to the body.  Chief among them is the substitution of sugar (carbohydrates) for every other nutrient -- with the predictable results.  The brain, muscles, and all the other organs cannot repair and rejuvenate themselves -- until all that one has, is depleted, and there is no more life force and the resources to sustain them.

That is not metaphysical, but the actual realities of any existence.  To the right-thinking person, that is fair enough -- and proves one's fitness for life -- that they got it right, and no amount of wrong, can make that difference.  It doesn't matter how many "experts" say it is so -- if it doesn't work for you -- and that is the whole truth of the matter.  It doesn't matter how many others it has been purported to work for.

"Science" is being able to test the truth of any matter for oneself -- and confirm or disprove the truth of it for oneself, and not just "listening to the experts," who may have their own agenda entirely.  Very often, it is to command what everybody else thinks is the truth -- rather than in allowing them to find out for themselves.  This manner of promotion, is merely authoritarianism -- in which people just accept whatever the authorities tell them -- and are usually forbidden to think and find out otherwise.  It is an age-old thread in human experience and evolution -- before a great leap forward -- because reality demands it.

But not everybody makes the leap -- and then those of the old guard -- become the last, while the eager and bold, become the first into the new world.  Again, time plays its role -- waiting for everything to fall into place -- even in the most unpredictable ways.  Who would have guessed that all the gyms would be shut down -- and then the only way of exercising, was with no equipment, accessories, and uniforms -- and everybody would be forced to create exercise as best they can, with whatever they have.  The magic is not in the machine -- or any other apparatus.  It is in the knowledge of one's own discoveries and insights.

Insanity is doing the same things over and over again hoping for a different (better) result -- rather than discovering what actually works -- and then improving upon it.  Knowledge is always at the beginning of the journey and not the end of the need for understanding.  For a whole generation to come to that reckoning is a global shock in consciousness -- that simply accumulating information is not enough, but the integration of all that is known into something unpredictably greater -- is the next step in evolution.

That is the transformation from health care to real health, as the new reality of our existence.   Then the possibility of people living to 100 -- in perfectly good health becomes possible, rather than merely wishful-thinking for most.  Of course one doesn't get there just by eating everybody else's desserts.  In fact, that is the known path to all diseases.  It should be obvious by now that doing all the wrong things results in poor health -- and that is not just handed out randomly, or to those who doggedly repeat what is not true -- and gets no favorable results.

There is a reason some are more susceptible to all manner of diseases and misfortunes -- while others experiencing those same challenges -- overcome those adversities and become stronger and fitter -- with time on their side.  Then the game changes entirely -- when time is on one's side, rather than working relentlessly against them -- waiting to go off.  That's the chance everybody takes -- whether they want to or realize.

With those prospects, one should hope for the best, while preparing for the worst -- because the reality will fall somewhere in between -- and just hoping for the best, OR preparing for the worst, will not be a sufficient response for life ahead.  That is what an intelligent person does -- prepare for many scenarios of varying possibilities -- and never expecting that everything will go according to their demands from everybody else.

Life is extremely personal in that way.  It's not a random walk through life -- but an increasingly focused and sensible one.  Increasingly, what one sees, is what they get, and not something opposite -- as many believe possible.  But that is a good model for testing -- to hone and refine one's knowledge to greater precision and effectiveness -- than just knowing the one thing that isn't working very well, and thinking that is all life has to offer -- for assuredly, it is not.  There are all the possibilities of life -- that some will convince us are disastrous except for their solution -- but merely prolongs and exacerbates one's condition, until finally there is nothing left.

That is the choice of freedom -- to be what one individually wants to be -- and not just have it determined by the authoritarian others -- who say "this cannot be done, and that cannot be done," because all things are possible -- until proven otherwise.  Then, one can discover and actualize the greater life the powers that be insist are impossible, and should never even be thought about -- as their chosen role in society.