#a completelt separate thing from science at all

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but also though the discussion about alternative medicine on both sides is so heavily tainted with stupid orientalist shit as if chinese people just invented the concept of qi like for fun the same way people invented mothman and it isnt specifically a science to describe the way that body systems are related and the way that feeling is transmitted through the body. like pop culture chinese/native american practices [that youre Definitely misunderstanding] arent Wonderful Secret Mystical Practices the government is witholding from you, theyre very old and sometimes imperfect science. no non western cultures arent imbeciles who believe in baby magic and refuse to listen to modern medicine, you just refuse to recognize the legitimacy of medicine that doesnt use latin nomenclature. like whyyy is this something people are so stubborn about refusing nuance on

#i was thinking abt this in the shower like 6 hours ago but its stewed for too long so i cant really articulate it succinctly anymore #i hope it makes sense though. this is like a thing i think about often in broader terms in terms of like #religion as very old science that Can evolve to welcome new information but that at some point western christianity decided to say was #a completelt separate thing from science at all #like i could be snarky and say it was about like creationism diverging from evolutionary research but i think even like #the point at which roman historians started getting really into describing The Exact History That Happened and decrying cultural histories #that only saw fit to preserve things that were important or even preserve the message over the exact substance #which i still think is something thats done a ton of damage that we view everything thru that cultural lens and its never really like #challenged in teaching history. in my experience or in my experience of people on the internet #i think its good to ask yourself if or WHY it matters to preserve the exact contents of history more than having legends or parables that #get across the same cultural/generational knowledge #even if the end result is that you still think its better to preserve objectiv history i think you should realize why its so common and why #its not like..... a more primitive way of preserving culture. which is always what i was implicitly expected to see