Ran across an especially egregious example of modern OCD witch hunts, blaming trace elements and trace waves for huge illnesses. I understand the temptation only too well. I’m a natural hypochondriac, ready to blame any available outside influence for my “symptoms”. Long experience has taught me that 98% of my problems are either seasonal inflammation or anxiety. Occasionally there’s a real bacterial infection, solved by a real antibiotic.
This OCDer was blaming his troubles on the “modulated pulsed AC” from the electric utility’s smart meter.
Highly dubious for two reasons.
First reason: It’s true that microwaves CAN penetrate and mess up cells. But there’s no evidence YET that our pervasive microwaves are actually causing health problems. Microwave ovens generate a powerful and tightly focused beam, not the trace levels found in the modern ether.
Second reason: We can be certain that a smart meter is not causing new symptoms. Power companies have been pulsing their AC to carry messages for 100 years. They used the carrier to sense load changes in substations and send commands back and forth within their system. Earlier dumb meters were carrying the signals without any extra receiving or sending. Your home wiring was carrying the signals for 100 years. The smart meter simply adds its own signals into the stream, as substations had always done.
Constants and variables!!!
When something has been running steadily for 100 years, you can’t blame it for a sudden change in results. If modulated AC was causing this fellow’s symptoms, it would have been causing them for all of his life, not only after the smart meter.
I’ve chosen to reject the smart meter and pay extra for manual reading, for a more abstract and spiritual reason. Keep it simple and keep it human. Whenever possible, avoid external uncontrollable commands and surveillance. Grandpa gave me the advice in 1962 and I’ve been following it (when allowed) ever since. Grandpa was an engineer at Detroit Edison, which makes the advice even more relevant here.
This line of thought originated from a specific conversation with Grandpa in 1962. Grandpa was dying early from alcohol and tobacco, and the family went to visit him one last time. As we hung around Grandpa’s house, or visited nearby parks, Grandpa kept saying true things, and parents kept trying to Rectify him, nervously painting over the facts with conventional leftist crap. I wasn’t sure what to think. Grandpa’s observations matched what I saw with my own eyes, but didn’t match what I’d always heard from parents and TV and books.
I think Grandpa got tired of being painted out. At one point he decided to go for beer and cigarettes (yeah, those were killing him, but it was too late to stop) and took me along. No parents, just me. I don’t remember most of the conversation but I remember one emphasized item that seemed to summarize his intentions.
We were talking about his old ’52 Ford Mainline. I must have been asking why anyone would want a plain car with no power steering, no radio, no automatic, none of the ‘exciting’ stuff that ‘everyone wanted’ in 1962.
Grandpa pointed to the manual choke. He told me that Ford was the only car that still offered a manual choke. He said it was important to have a simple car that you could understand and fix by yourself, and it was important to have direct control over the car.
Extend car to life, and there’s the message.
Same as Carver’s message.
Look about you.
Take hold of the things that are here.
Talk to them.
Let them talk to you.
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