Where did everyone go?
Another empty sidewalk, another deserted street. What happened?
Another sunny day shining down upon an abandoned neighborhood-- paved to perfection-- and not a soul in sight.
Something terrible must have happened here.
Of course, many of us know what happened to neighborhoods like this one, and indeed there is a reason that a sunny day such as this one is being avoided; the inhabitants of this brightly lit world have been taught to fear the sun itself.
We are told not to look at the sun, but for just a second, let’s take a glance at it, and have a look at the popular understandings of what the sun might do for our health, or what it may do to harm us.
Formerly, In Science:
Remember when they used to say that sunlight was healthy? ”You need to get some sun!” ...they used to say.
Scientists used to say that our bodies create something called 'vitamin D' when we were exposed to sunlight.
It was said that one of the functions of this vitamin D was to help prevent cancer in the body.
Given this data, we might easily have been able to do the math, and logically we could say that through our body’s natural biochemical reactions to this light, sunlight could help to prevent cancer.
Winter Depression
Aside from a deficit of vitamin D, there are also certain seasonal effects on human psychopathology that can be attributed to a lack of sunlight.
Mood and anxiety disorders become more frequent during the winter months, while depression and suicides also increase during these darker days of winter.
These mood changes are caused by yet another chemical reaction in the body, as serotonin levels change during the winter months, and again, this biochemistry can be shown to be related to the amount of sunlight that we are exposed to.
What Happened?
It seems that today, medical sciences have focused on chemistry within the body, but instead of pointing to the sun, today’s medical practitioners will point their patients towards the pharmaceutical industry for solutions to things like cancer and depression.
An Industry is Born
As the pharmaceutical industry gained power and influence over the practice of medicine, the focus of modern treatments went into the creation of synthetic chemical products which would basically attempt to mimic the natural effects of sunlight on the human body.
The chemical industry soon found that their main competitor was the actual sun, and in business terms, the competition needed to be eliminated.
Those potential medical patients who managed their serotonin levels using natural sunlight may have had less need for pharmaceutical solutions, and those who got their vitamin D from the sun itself could have found less need for chemical cancer treatments.
This daily competition with the sun would be bad for business if one’s business was the manufacturing of the synthetic pharmaceutical drugs which were developed not for human health, but were instead designed to make money and profit for that chemical industry.
Through marketing, mass-media and widespread campaigns of health propaganda, it didn’t take too long to persuade a population that they should fear the sunlight, or to at least cover themselves with another chemical product known as sunscreen before they venture out in the daylight.
The Big Yellow Pill in the Sky- Our Sun
The mysterious placebo effect is a psychological feature which is used to persuade the mind to believe that healing has taken place, allowing the body to return to a medium balance-- it is a med icine that works within a patient’s mind.
The reverse of a placebo, a no -cebo, can do the opposite, by making a patient believe that they are going to become ill, they might actually start to feel sick.
If medicine has indeed become a business in the modern world, then it would make good business sense to get as many customers as possible, using every means available to that industry, such as psychological manipulation of the population of potential patients.
With endless marketing to make the sun more fearful, the side effects of that fear can be turned into new patients for the industry, and since anxiety and stress have their own effects on human health, new pills can be tested for that on a now-willing population, a population of people who have been told that the very sun in the sky is killing them.
LIGHT: 'It's Good For You, Until It Burns'
Our sun gives life to all living things on Earth, and we humans can easily live on the planet with the sun shining overhead if we simply remember the truth about light; it’s good for you, until it burns.
Many people claim that the sun is getting brighter, hotter, and has gradually changed color in recent years. It is possible that it’s rays have become stronger, and quicker to burn the skin. Our sun seems to be gaining strength. Like a deity, it's presence is demanding to be noticed every day.
An Industry Trying to Be a God
If the sun were a deity, a god in the sky, then the medical industry hopes to mimic those godlike qualities with it’s chemistry, and even hopes to shine brighter than the sun in it’s ability to penetrate the minds and beliefs of an entire population of creators.
The formula is simple enough, and can be seen as a problem, reaction, solution dialectic, and can perhaps be written out:
THESIS: ‘The sun is dangerous, unhealthy, and bad for the economy.’
ANTITHESIS: Widespread Fear.
SYNTHESIS: Avoidance of the sun’s mood-elevating, cancer-fighting therapeutic rays, and instead using pharmaceutical antidepressant solutions to the ensuing depression-- radiological and chemical cancer solutions for the now-unchecked cancers, plus plenty of sunscreen for everyone.
This Is Not Medical Advice
The medical scientists of today seem to have other things on their minds besides sunlight, and sunlight is no longer popularly spoken of as a tool for healing. The sidewalks are now abandoned, and there are no children playing nearby.
This is not to be taken as advice on health, well-being or happiness, but is just me noticing another empty sidewalk on a sunny day in a perfectly good neighborhood, and wondering if we could turn the sun back into a placebo if we all believed that it was good for us again, wondering if our collective belief in a thing is strong enough to make it into reality.
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