Modern babies

[tasteetriceps]

On Monday i watched my first surgery, in the context of my first birth. Wheeling the baby transport device to the operating room with the two experienced nurses in our spacesuits, we didn't look like we were off to fetch a basically routine new human--we looked like a Hazmat team preparing to isolate a contaminated object. Ah, anyway, an OR is a

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[agaperos77]

" It's true that you needn't a heavy hand to oppress people--they'll help oppress themselves with ignorance and fear."

I don't know...one could certainly interpret the way infants are "welcomed" into the world as heavy handed. For an infant the time away from the mother while they're being cooked in sterile vats is like an eternity. Then if you're a boy they go and slice up your pee pee giving you a painful first imprint that automatically associates your genitals with pain. I don't know how anyone tricked people into thinking this was acceptable. I guess hundreds of years of being taught to hate and fear our bodies primed us for this kind of abuse. And then tricking mothers into feeding their kids formulas that can be patented and from which profit can be made unlike the mother's own supply of food that's custom designed for human babies.

I suspect that so many people like the movie The Matrix because the image of people in vats trips off unconscious memories of becoming an air breathing creature in hospitals. Yup, they get us when we're defenseless so we'll be obedient little consumers when we actually have the potential for power to change things.

[tasteetriceps]

Truth. I was speaking of adults' ignorance & fear in isolation, but i spose there's no isolating.

I do wonder what it would be like to return to newborn awareness for a moment. The earliest memory i can bring to mind right now is of standing in my crib at night, holding on to the rail. I wonder if time could possibly have dragged on longer then than when i was somewhat older.

There's a lot of work to do.