„The war on germs is therefore another aspect of our culture’s self-other confusion, the confusion over who we are. It is not surprising that the great epidemics of our time are the automimmune diseases. At its most basic, the immune system distinguishes between self and the other. Our collective confusion over who we are manifests in the body as immune system disorders.”
says Charles Eisenstein.
So dirty is bad. That is one of our culture’s most fundamental dogma.
Vice versa, pure is to be adored. This permeats not just housewife’s world, it is so present in spiritual circles, equally those among traditional religions and modern syncretic spirituality, including plant medicine. One must continually cleanse themselves, purify, expulse, trauma, energy parasites, contamination.
The enemy is dirt, but what is dirt if not the earth?
What is the other opposite of dirty? It is sterile. In the world of masks, gloves, disinfectants, you may overlook that sterile literally means not able to reproduce, not able to create life.
Why do you think in the sterile modernity existential crisis prevails, and it is in the dirty countries, in places close to the earth, that despite immense hardship, the will of life thrives?