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This is the Water We Swim In
The medical model — is it serving humanity?
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
— David Foster Wallace, Is this Water?
The society that we see around us — that we barely notice — is our water. We tend to not see its mechanisms and the conditions it causes because we are so used to it being there. So used to it that we do not question it. We accept and think it is “reality.”
But we have created our societies. They are human constructs and concepts. And in this sense — we do live in the Matrix.
And we can choose if we want to stay there or not.
Once you see that the society we live in, and the institutions we have in them, are just one way of living and doing, choice appears. The problem is that most people do not see the water. And therefore, they do not question it. And they do not recognize that they have choices.
The societies we have are based on mutual agreements that this is what “reality” looks like. But most have no sense of ever having agreed to the mutual construct…
