polio
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polio is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 21, 2021 and May 21, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “It would be like a land that was convinced it had the best vaccine for polio”; “we displayed when eradicating smallpox, polio, and all the other causative agents for dangerous medica”. It most often appears alongside Crazy Like Us, 9/11, ACOUP.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 21, 2021
- Last seen: May 21, 2024
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- Crazy Like Us (2 shared issues)
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- 11 (1 shared issues)
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- ACOUP (1 shared issues)
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- Adderall (1 shared issues)
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- ADHD (1 shared issues)
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- Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (1 shared issues)
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- Alephwyr (1 shared issues)
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- America (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I found the trauma section of the book very compelling, in part because it squares with my impression of the United States as a society that is convinced it understands trauma better than any previous society but seems to achieve uniquely poor outcomes. It would be like a land that was convinced it had the best vaccine for polio but you look around and every fourth person is in an iron lung.
Falconer treats our Eurocentric individualistic citadel mind as a terrible historical mistake, in which a whole continent foolishly amputated its capacity for spiritual experiences. I think of it as more of a triumph: realizing on some level that belief in demons made them real, we eradicated that belief with the same fervor that we displayed when eradicating smallpox, polio, and all the other causative agents for dangerous medical conditions.