When a family is travelling it is quite usual to see a father and a grown-up son riding ahead on donkeys, and an old woman following on foot, carrying the baggage.
This sounds so cruel, makes me wonder if he is making a point on how women are treated in some places. Meaning a woman in some places does so much more work, working outside in the field, working inside the home, raising kids, and taking care of everything and everyone. Does that make sense? Anyone else thought that?
All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are.
This is well said
they took my job away from me and gave it to a Jew
This they-take-our-jobs reminds me of how people talk about immigrants today
Down the centre of the street there is generally running a little river of urine.
wow, this definitely paints a picture of how bad the conditions were that he witnessed in that neighborhood
vaccine
vaccines seem to be blamed for everything
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He makes an interesting point in these last few paragraphs
significant part of the population has been rendered unnecessary, superfluous, a bit of a pain but not likely to last long.
This is really depressing
There’s no sympathy at all.
Very unfortunate.
There’s nothing like that for addicts, nor suicides, not now and not in the past, and in fact that’s part of the phenomenon I want to talk about here.
Indeed, and it may be due to the general view that people addicted to drugs are somehow different, worse. But if you spend some time learning about the human reward system, the effects of drugs on brain and behavior, and how easily opioid drugs were prescribed for everything and anything during certain time in history, you quickly realize that these people are not fully to blame. Each case is different, but my point is that there should be more understanding for this group of people.
47,055 of which at least 29,467 are attributable to opiates. The population is larger now, of course, but even the death rates are comparable.
Good point, here are some more statistics: https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
Who cares?
Isn't this always the initial response to many issues?
Why was the initial official response only to scare, and not to inform people at risk? Why were AIDS information materials censored (or more properly defunded) if they did not simultaneously condemn homosexuality?
Good point
41,699 Americans died of AIDS. To put that in perspective, that’s about 70% of the number of Americans who died in all nineteen years of the Vietnam War combined
I agree with others, this is crazy. Wow!