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Why the medical profession will change beyond recognition over the next fifty years
One of the lovely things about ignorance is that it permits one to hold incoherent beliefs without suffering any mental discomfort. Perhaps that’s why blissful ignorance is such a dominant feature of our species. One of my personal favorite examples of blissful ignorance is delivered by the predictable anti-capitalism/anti-globalization protests that are almost always part of the peripheral theatrics accompanying G7 meetings and other similar gatherings of the supposed great and good.
These theatrical fringe moments comprise earnest middle-class protestors gathering to express their outrage at the evils of capitalism and globalization while stroking their smartphones and wearing their modestly-priced garments — both of which are 100% the products of capitalism and globalization. Then they return to their comfortable homes where they eat food that is the product of capitalism and globalization and watch entertainments that are likewise the product of the forces they’ve just been decrying. And their resulting ill-health from over-eating is palliated by medicines that are totally reliant on capitalism and global supply chains.
Thanks to impenetrable ignorance, our middle-class purveyors of outrage are utterly unaware of…
