This might be a little redundant, but, humor me, because it’s shocking and disturbing to me.
One of the implications of Talent Theory and Tribalism is that most people will never be able to achieve any level of good health. Because health depends on, more than anything, diet, and diet has a strong cultural component to it and that cultural component is largely influenced by corrupt institutions, both in the private and public sectors. Those with a strong tribal survival instinct will succumb to that cultural pressure, eat badly, and, therefore, be unhealthy. The results of a bad diet will be, in the short-term, suboptimal biological performance like obesity, disease, auto-immune problems, metabolic issues and so-on. In the long term, it will lead to degenerative disease and general physical decline.
That, by itself, means the majority of people will never be healthy, but that’s not the end of it. When you factor in Talent Theory, the number of people capable of health is even lower. Even those who have a weak tribal survival instinct that allows them to resist the cultural pressures influencing diet, they have to have certain talents gifted to them by their genetics to achieve health. One needs curiosity to want to know the right way to eat. One needs reasoning to be able to separate fact from fiction when their curiosity encounters it. One needs the discipline to implement the facts that their reasoning has sifted out. Additionally, health has to be a high priority value in the first place.
That means that only a small percentage of people will ever be truly healthy, and I didn’t mention anything about exercise which is also important.
On a personal level, my health is probably my top priority. If you are one of the people who is capable of good health, be happy for it and don’t blame people for the outcomes they experience because of their inability to achieve what you’ve achieved. You have gifts that they don’t have and that isn’t their fault. It may be worth sharing your understanding with them, because they may have the gifts you have, but haven’t learned what you’ve learned, however, chances are that you won’t be able to help them and you should be prepared for that. It’s like seeing someone you care about drowning, so you throw them a float, but they don’t know what a float is and so they don’t grab it. From your perspective, the float’s right there and all they have to do is grab it, but they don’t and you have to watch them drown.
That’s what’s so disturbing to me about this particular issue.
