[extropy-chat] measure of health?

Al Brooks kerry_prez at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 26 16:12:57 UTC 2005


"it is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society"- Krishnamurti.
Well, maybe Krishnamurti was wrong.
 
If someone can live a long life yet be dysfunctional, then who cares if they have adjusted to a 'sick' society? Certainly they themselves don't. They don't care much what people think. I know one guy ["oh Brooks, not another one of your anecdotes"], a drifter, miser, with half a million dollars in the bank who is homeless and ceaselessly carries around his belonging in two heavy pound duffel bags. He works seven days a week, and pays acquaintances a few dollars a night to stay at their apartments. He shuffles around with a double hernia-- he doesn't trust doctors to treat it. He doesn't trust banks but he has no mattress of his own to hide the money in. Aside from the double hernia he is in good shape for a 56 year old. And he's happy. Putting to one side the question of whether the society he lives in is sick or not, he has adjusted to his own what other people might call 'sickness'.

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