My son is in medicine and absolutely couldn’t wait until he qualified for the jab!! Was furious that my husband and I refused to take it. The conversations were belittling and rude. We finally had to just agree to never speak about it (or politics) ever again. When we both came down with COVID last spring we didn’t even tell him unti…
My son is in medicine and absolutely couldn’t wait until he qualified for the jab!! Was furious that my husband and I refused to take it. The conversations were belittling and rude. We finally had to just agree to never speak about it (or politics) ever again. When we both came down with COVID last spring we didn’t even tell him until weeks later. And hen he actually asked if we would get jabbed after waiting three months! I guess he doesn’t believe in natural immunity. It’s sad to be so disappointed in my son. 😕
I know the feeling. My daughter's best friends are in medical school so they are the "experts" vs my 40 years in Pharma marketing knowing BS studies when I see them.
The hubris of youth. I remember arguing about politics with my Dad when I was a teenager.
My political beliefs were pretty typical of teenagers then, deprived of life experience but fueled primarily by emotion, hormones, lyrics from Bob Marley and John Lennon, and my perception of how the world worked and should work. My Dad was a Navy vet who had seen the world and who made his share of life mistakes - including divorcing my Mom - to which he duly admitted.
My dad wouldn't argue back. He would just sort of look at me, his eyes communicating this "you won't get it until you do" look.
Sadly, my Dad died of cancer when I was 19. I didn't have the chance to tell him that I finally "got it" when I engaged in an argument with my eldest son and I tried to explain to him that the world doesn't quite work the way he thinks it does. Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin understood the dynamic.
These young doctors-in-training are highly intelligent and hard-working to begin with but my understanding from friends in the medical field is that medical schools have become Big Pharma indoctrination centers. Once they learn the roadmap of human anatomy, the core of the learning appears to be that BigPharma and BigMed have the cure for any and all human ailments.
Bearing that in mind, it must be impossible for them to accept beliefs that are heretical to their developing belief system. Sadly, the vast majority won't "get it" until they too "get it."
‘The hubris of youth.’ And aren’t our free, democracies ruled by a bunch of superannuated college kids - emotionally and intellectually teens, with knowledge of history, life and the World hardly enough to cover a postage stamp? And the ‘leader’ of the Free World, Brandon, is just the Frat House mascot.
Very well put. Those are the primary targets of advertising and jingoism. They are the most susceptible to social engineering and messaging.
I remember arguing with a few of my younger friends back in 2002 how the neocon argument that Saddam was behind 9/11 made no sense. They joined up nonetheless in order to "get some payback." A decade later they all seemed to have that same "we got f*cked expression" on their face.
I didn’t “send him to medical school”. He earned a full ride to Georgetown and made his own choice. Back then he was quite Conservative. But going to school in DC, and then living and working in DC the last 15 years has definitely changed him.
My son is in medicine and absolutely couldn’t wait until he qualified for the jab!! Was furious that my husband and I refused to take it. The conversations were belittling and rude. We finally had to just agree to never speak about it (or politics) ever again. When we both came down with COVID last spring we didn’t even tell him until weeks later. And hen he actually asked if we would get jabbed after waiting three months! I guess he doesn’t believe in natural immunity. It’s sad to be so disappointed in my son. 😕
I know the feeling. My daughter's best friends are in medical school so they are the "experts" vs my 40 years in Pharma marketing knowing BS studies when I see them.
The hubris of youth. I remember arguing about politics with my Dad when I was a teenager.
My political beliefs were pretty typical of teenagers then, deprived of life experience but fueled primarily by emotion, hormones, lyrics from Bob Marley and John Lennon, and my perception of how the world worked and should work. My Dad was a Navy vet who had seen the world and who made his share of life mistakes - including divorcing my Mom - to which he duly admitted.
My dad wouldn't argue back. He would just sort of look at me, his eyes communicating this "you won't get it until you do" look.
Sadly, my Dad died of cancer when I was 19. I didn't have the chance to tell him that I finally "got it" when I engaged in an argument with my eldest son and I tried to explain to him that the world doesn't quite work the way he thinks it does. Yusuf/Cat Stevens and Harry Chapin understood the dynamic.
These young doctors-in-training are highly intelligent and hard-working to begin with but my understanding from friends in the medical field is that medical schools have become Big Pharma indoctrination centers. Once they learn the roadmap of human anatomy, the core of the learning appears to be that BigPharma and BigMed have the cure for any and all human ailments.
Bearing that in mind, it must be impossible for them to accept beliefs that are heretical to their developing belief system. Sadly, the vast majority won't "get it" until they too "get it."
‘The hubris of youth.’ And aren’t our free, democracies ruled by a bunch of superannuated college kids - emotionally and intellectually teens, with knowledge of history, life and the World hardly enough to cover a postage stamp? And the ‘leader’ of the Free World, Brandon, is just the Frat House mascot.
Very well put. Those are the primary targets of advertising and jingoism. They are the most susceptible to social engineering and messaging.
I remember arguing with a few of my younger friends back in 2002 how the neocon argument that Saddam was behind 9/11 made no sense. They joined up nonetheless in order to "get some payback." A decade later they all seemed to have that same "we got f*cked expression" on their face.
Sending him to medical school was your first mistake! A high grade brainwashing factory with a very large carrot to motivate the participants.
I didn’t “send him to medical school”. He earned a full ride to Georgetown and made his own choice. Back then he was quite Conservative. But going to school in DC, and then living and working in DC the last 15 years has definitely changed him.