What we call "real" is what we can measure. But that measurement confines what we think reality is to the instruments used and the conditions employed to measure it . . . [W]hat is true is only true at the level it was measured. The term "reality," then, is largely governed by mutual opinion, not "bottom-line evidence."

Most people don’t realize how normalized the lower realms have become.

Health has no fixed meaning. It is fluid. Under capitalism health has been defined to embody many meanings at once: from the hyper-individualistic, biological “health” any one person possesses—always a possession, not an ontology—to global society-level constructs which attempt to give language to chances for survival at the population level. Health is a vulgar phenomenon. A race-and-class-stratified matrix of constantly intersecting regimes of artificial scarcity. A destination, something one must always orient one’s life toward. Healthy physically, socially, economically, and metaphysically. More than a thing, and so often difficult or impossible to describe, health becomes defined by the things it is not. Non-cancerous, dis-abled—as though the purest state of health is to simply not exist.