@spv whale hello there
i don't think doctors are responsible for the current system's brokenness, but i do think they are disempowered to do anything about it without some worker solidarity. not even necessarily marx-style, i'm talking guild-style pride
this slow creep of professional-managerialism into the profession has basically eliminated indpendent practice, visiting doctors, compassionate end-of-life care. they still exist, most are just priced out of it. the true dignity of medicine, being a pillar of a community and having autonomy over care, has been supplanted with the hollow internal logic of capital
oh is it a money thing? compare the median salary of a family physician to what a good contractor can earn. both are basically apprenticed vocations. classically the only difference between a plumber and a physician is that the latter is a “learned vocation”, entailing some degree of humanism and philosophy. given that the current crop of doctors is virtually illiterate, that playing field has also been levelled
what if you’re just assuming that integrating lineage is a heart transplant? have you tried just dancing with the body as a whole?
i mean you can *call* it yoga, and that does annoy me a little bit, but ultimately it is akin to excising a beating heart from a body and expecting that playing catch with it is going to clear your clogged arteries. all you’ve really done is made a mess
@taalumot climbing the stairway to heaven one token at a time
@taalumot they tend to dislike hearing it, especially from a Satanic Oriental, so thank you for doing the good work
@flancian the scale of his influence is rather understated. his synthesis is really the basis of contemporary hinduism (putting aside recent theopolitical fanaticism)
depths plumber ॐ