100%. I think we have the same problem with fascism, too. There is a theory (though I think it’s debunked) about approximate 80 year cycles due to people dying off and memories lost and lessons having to be re-learned by the young, since they are ignorant.
Certainly things like vaccines are victims of their own success - the low-info can innocently bat their eyes and claim that vaccines never did nothing for them, nohow, because they haven’t seen the alternative themselves. This is why the antivaccine insanity didn’t really take root with boomers [1] and older Gen X quite so much. I have no idea what RFK’s excuse is, other than probably being a total idiot and selfish asshole out to make money on the “wellness” movement.
[1] My parents were boomers and both of them didn’t even believe I was serious when I was first telling them about vaccine denialism I was running across online in the mid-90s. They thought that was a thing of the distant past, when some xtians resisted vaccines, because it was messing with their god’s will. And my grandmother, who was a nurse, got very worked up in the 90s when I told her about it (she was silent or greatest generation). I legit think she would have slapped the face of anyone spouting anti-vaccine bullshit to her in-person, since she had stories about the kinds of things she saw as a child and as a nurse when it came to kids dying from now-preventable disease. It made her blood boil to hear that people my age and younger were actively resisting vaccinations. I’m kind of glad she didn’t live to see the Covid reaction…
100%. I think we have the same problem with fascism, too. There is a theory (though I think it’s debunked) about approximate 80 year cycles due to people dying off and memories lost and lessons having to be re-learned by the young, since they are ignorant.
Certainly things like vaccines are victims of their own success - the low-info can innocently bat their eyes and claim that vaccines never did nothing for them, nohow, because they haven’t seen the alternative themselves. This is why the antivaccine insanity didn’t really take root with boomers [1] and older Gen X quite so much. I have no idea what RFK’s excuse is, other than probably being a total idiot and selfish asshole out to make money on the “wellness” movement.
[1] My parents were boomers and both of them didn’t even believe I was serious when I was first telling them about vaccine denialism I was running across online in the mid-90s. They thought that was a thing of the distant past, when some xtians resisted vaccines, because it was messing with their god’s will. And my grandmother, who was a nurse, got very worked up in the 90s when I told her about it (she was silent or greatest generation). I legit think she would have slapped the face of anyone spouting anti-vaccine bullshit to her in-person, since she had stories about the kinds of things she saw as a child and as a nurse when it came to kids dying from now-preventable disease. It made her blood boil to hear that people my age and younger were actively resisting vaccinations. I’m kind of glad she didn’t live to see the Covid reaction…