Why The West Collapsed

When you’ve removed the problems, you’ve created a problem

The human immune system is evolved to cope with daily challenges (called “insults” by those who toil in the fields of immunology) because for 99.999% of all human history every single human being alive had to fend off an unrelenting bombardment of insults from a wide variety of pathogens. Even today, with all of our modern shiny toys, the majority of humankind still lives in conditions that generate a substantial number of daily insults.

Most people living in Africa have to drink unclean water, inhale polluted air, and eat food that would be condemned by any Western health & safety inspector. The same holds true for many people in Central and South America, and across vast swathes of Asia. As Russia collapses outside the desperately-preserved enclaves of the four major cities and as Russian missiles and bombs turn much of Ukraine into rubble, the same is true there as well. Only people living in still-for-now-safe affluent corners of the world such as Western Europe, Canada, Australasia, and the USA take high levels of hygiene for granted.

Which is why we see so many auto-immune diseases in precisely those countries. Deprived of the insults that would normally provide ample work the human immune system, like an over-eager bodyguard who punches their…