Immunodemocracy
The Origins of Wokeness
paulgraham.comDr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300 — FOR THE WILD
forthewild.worldThe “self” of immunology is more porous and fluid than the one in liberal political science, able to be shaped by social, economic, and political injustices. Matzinger herself wrote, “The immune system does not care about self and non-self[;] its primary driving force is the need to detect and protect against danger.”107 In other words, it is “more
... See moreRaj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Even though we have no immunity against CoV-2, we have developed a resistance to anything that has the potential to unsettle our lives: the unknown, the disconcerting, the new and scary.