Is it me ... or what?

It's been four decades now since I got woke to holistic health. [So much so then that I changed careers from the business world to what's commonly referred to as holistic health. In my case, Rolfing. It's telling on just what is creativity when I left advertising as an Ad Biggie on Madison Avenue how going into something truly creative was received. Not so much. There's applied creativity; as in, let's be clever about selling you something. Then there's what I would call pure creativity. Let's call it art. I'm sure there were other factors, buy my sense was that many in the "creative" world wouldn't know from creative if it bit them in the nose.]

Anyhow my focus is about a how essential points get lost in certain shuffles.

Take the ongoing, many years’ discussion on health care. Here I am all enthusiastic about how the ideas embodied in the holistic approach to health could transform the system and make it more effective and sustainable. What do I see instead? All the talk is about how to pay for what we're already doing.

Very little, if any, coverage on the obvious [to me] issue of assessing the effectiveness of the services and products being delivered. As I recall one physician saying, "The American health care system is very good at keeping sick people alive". It's so interesting to be standing outside a prevailing paradigm and seeing how the box is sealed tight for most people. Or, paraphrasing Chris Rock, "Ain't no money in the cure. The money's in the medicine." Chew on that bit of wise observation from the funny man.

Then, most currently, it's all about the Corona virus. Probably the biggest tragedy of our lifetime in terms of impacts to society and the economy. One wonders when the masks will come off. All the news is about the statistics of cases reported and deaths. And, of course, the back and forth about wearing protective products, and when and how to get back to doing things and going places.

The elephant in the room however is this ... death. As in, everybody wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die. On this subject too, nada. Zip ... zilch. Death itself ... crickets.

The question of what is death is pretty much settled at that it's when you stop living. It's bad for you. It certainly looks that way the way we treat it. We punish serious criminal offenses with the death sentence, don't we? It's an ingrained assumption in the Covid 19 conversations. But, what is it really, and what's it for, and why is it? ... Those questions don't arise.

I don't have the chops to spell that one out. Even if I did, if you're not asking the question, WTF good would it be to illuminate you on the subject? I'm done with offering an answer to a question that's not being asked.

Lastly, something from my professional expertise. Rolf Structural Integration is essentially about balancing the human body with Gravity. Not keeping one's balance, but in how the segments of the body stack up and relate in respect to the architectural demands of Earth's Gravitational pull. Being out of balance — "at war with Gravity" as the originator of Rolfing, Dr. Ida P. Rolf put it — is so commonplace it goes unnoticed.

We're talking once again about some things being so obvious they are not noticed, as such or for what they are. Take your average, random fish, for instance. See what it answers to the question, "How's the water?". ["Duh! What water?"]