Rinse & rePeat
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"The purpose of education is largely to disempower the student, so that they depend on the system and become reliable."
Ray Peat
At first this statement took me aback, thinking to myself, "Is Ray Peat anti-establishment?" Further pondering his words, it didn't take long for me to hear what he was saying. It makes sense he would say such a thing, after all he has, on many occasion, called out the medical establishment, which are composed of his peers, warning us of their "practices", with unnecessary pap smears, mammograms and cancer treatments. The oath of "First Do No Harm" is now a meaningless promise with never an apology. It is now so hard to find a good doctor like finding the pepper through fly poop.
Another similar tragedy is our school system, originally intended to teach, reading, writing, arithmatic and of a bigger world with endless posibilities! Now it's intention is to make everybody think and speak the same, like a Tower Of Babel, to make us, as Ray Peat said, "more reliable". Halfway through my two boy's education I realized the flaw in the system. Instead of looking for a person's strengths and fostering it to greatness, they put a cap on it with a pass to the next grade, and pull in the parents with concerns as to why "Little Johnny" isn't as good as the others in Math. The final punch line to the big joke is that original food pyramid, suggesting that each of us needs to do our part to have healthy American and get that loaf of bread in everyday, and work our way up that pyramid to the top where we get to have and little protein and sugar. Now 50 years later and ten fold fatter, the ignorant wipe crumbs from their mouth and call Ray Peat the crazy one?!!
I always knew something was amiss about that pyramid, but admittedly, they did fool me with the vegetables.
ATTACHED is photos of the original food pyramid and Ray Peat's pyramid
Ray Peat
At first this statement took me aback, thinking to myself, "Is Ray Peat anti-establishment?" Further pondering his words, it didn't take long for me to hear what he was saying. It makes sense he would say such a thing, after all he has, on many occasion, called out the medical establishment, which are composed of his peers, warning us of their "practices", with unnecessary pap smears, mammograms and cancer treatments. The oath of "First Do No Harm" is now a meaningless promise with never an apology. It is now so hard to find a good doctor like finding the pepper through fly poop.
Another similar tragedy is our school system, originally intended to teach, reading, writing, arithmatic and of a bigger world with endless posibilities! Now it's intention is to make everybody think and speak the same, like a Tower Of Babel, to make us, as Ray Peat said, "more reliable". Halfway through my two boy's education I realized the flaw in the system. Instead of looking for a person's strengths and fostering it to greatness, they put a cap on it with a pass to the next grade, and pull in the parents with concerns as to why "Little Johnny" isn't as good as the others in Math. The final punch line to the big joke is that original food pyramid, suggesting that each of us needs to do our part to have healthy American and get that loaf of bread in everyday, and work our way up that pyramid to the top where we get to have and little protein and sugar. Now 50 years later and ten fold fatter, the ignorant wipe crumbs from their mouth and call Ray Peat the crazy one?!!
I always knew something was amiss about that pyramid, but admittedly, they did fool me with the vegetables.
ATTACHED is photos of the original food pyramid and Ray Peat's pyramid