modern medicine is mind bogglingly archaic
there is a subset of diseases/conditions/syndromes we can completely eradicate, but the vast majority are either only manageable or the cure is so badly misunderstood that it could be worse than what it is meant to be treating. people look at tuberculosis or malaria or whatever and consider themselves lucky to be born in such a remarkable era where so many diseases have basically disappeared. but like... if you get dementia or break a hip bone when you are older or are paralyzed, you can enjoy basically the same treatment that a medieval peasant would've received.
we know so little !! we are children in the game of biology. it is continuously shocking to me how non-terrified people are of how little we understand the vessel by which we 'experience reality.' honestly, this should scare people. this should collectively unify humanity via a common goal: be the ultimate masters of our own body, and to never bow down to random accidents as of late. it’s never too late to pursue the biotechnical sciences and believe in the future of transhumanism
—but alas, there are too many cultural artifacts, we have too many stories of the afterlife, too many tales about the virtues of suffering too many parables about the dangers of playing god; and people don’t realise the horrors of biological decay until they are too weak and mute to demand more. and then they die, and the cycle repeats.
this is changing over time, we are getting better and better at investigating ourselves, and more people are understanding that aging, disease, and decay, are possible to avoid entirely. but we are still in the dark ages by any measure