to suggest that all of these people - myself included - are stuck in neutral, or even reverse, because they're uneducated is simply wrong. it's the kind of thing harper would say, sure, but it's easily debunked by data.

it reflects the blind spot on both sides, though.

to the rural bumpkin, all them city folk are just a bunch of liberal elitists - and that's fine for conservative voters, who then vote for conservative elites (trump merely being the most absurd example) who think exactly that, as harper did - that if you don't succeed in life, you're just uneducated.

and, of course, this imaginary liberal elite, to the extent it exists, would say the same thing - that it knows better than the unwashed masses, who would easily climb their way up if they'd only go to school.

lost in all of this nonsense being peddled by both elitist factions is that we live in a system where people are intended to fail. this is a hierarchy - people must exist at the bottom of it. and, it's not the people born into the top. it follows that, for the vast majority of people, there's really no way out of poverty, and this is by design. grasping this is fundamental, but few get it - as proletariat, we even blame each other for "failing" in a system that is designed so that nobody wins.

the average "middle class" person nowadays is raised relatively well off, takes on massive amounts of debt to get an education and ends up working in the service sector, in the end. these are educated, urban and mostly white people that are going to feel resentment at what they correctly perceive is an unfair system of nepotism and preference, not an egalitarian system of merit. and, those that buy into it will often reject merit on it's face in favour of affirmative action, and code words like "diversity".

it puts us into a rough spot, because we want a system that's equal, but we realize that the pendulum has swung rather far, and left us out. and, we have nothing to do about it, and nobody to vote for - or not really, anyways. it's a constantly shitty calculation for a lesser evil. and, we always lose, in the end.

so, where in this dichotomy do you put the the overeducated starbucks employee, that has a phd and serves coffee, which is in truth the driver of the modern economy and the primary swing voter on the left?

these are the people that swing between the ndp and the liberals and the greens - and they're the people that determine the outcomes of elections.

it's less that what he's describing isn't real and more that it doesn't matter. that "liberal" (for they are, in truth, anything but) elite is never going to vote for the conservatives, and the rural base of the conservative party is never going to vote liberal - although they may vote ndp or green in a pinch.

this is useless data and a meaningless narrative that doesn't matter - and it's reflective of the fact that he's leading a dead movement.

the political movements of the future will be the ones that trap the energy of the overeducated and underemployed, as they are increasingly the majority.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/erin-otoole-culture-war-pandemic-statues-immigration-1.5826976

the other thing i'm curious about is if they can just paint something on there, if they can blow away the plaque first. like, even just white-out it. no, really.

right now, it seems like it's helping - and i might even say dramatically.

but, i'll keep a very close eye on it.

any bleeding, any lesions, any discolouring, etc and i'll stop immediately; right now, it seems to be eating away at plaque and actually reversing the gum erosion, at least between the teeth. that means that, if i had a weak form of gingivitis, it might have been all i needed to do.

might.

seems.

and, if they won't do a scaling, i can get a waterpik for $50 and do it myself, too.

ok.

*sigh*.

it's somewhat reassuring that dish soap appears to be frequently recommended as a denture or retainer cleaning solution, for the explicit reason that it is milder than any other option.

and, dish soap does have a reputation for being mild.

but, it doesn't help me understand whether it'd going to fry my gums or not, which is what i'm apprehensive about.

i'm trying to kill something inside me.

and, the available science on the matter isn't helpful because it's driven by an industry that profits off of failure.

again: i know this is a balancing act.

if it's gentle enough to be 100% safe, it won't work!

there are actually a number of anti-microbial agents in the dish soap:

Ammonium Laureth Sulfate

Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate

Lauramidopropylamine Oxide <-----nitrate

Isodeceth-6 <-----alcohol

Sodium Chloride <----salt

Magnesium Sulfate    <-----magnesium is good 

Alcohol Denat

Methylisothiazolinone <----in mouthwash. biocide, cytotoxin, antifungal. safe for gums?

Benzisothiazolinone <----""

Methylchloroisothiazolinone <-----"" 

https://www.palmolive.com/en-us/ingredients

i found the following article, and i would presume the concentrations are much lower than this, but i sent an email to palmolive to ask:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10915819209141993

see, this is what i want to see.

and, i can tell it's working.

i just worry about concentrations.

i need to halt at the earliest sign of inflammation.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31211651/

it's a constant truth with me.

i'm either brilliant or retarded.

we'll find out...

yeah, i should be able to get a tall container of the stuff for $10.

ok.

that was a typo, but i'm sticking with it.

sodium bicarbonate is baking soda.

calcium carbonate is tums.

but, they put sugar in tums, so don't use it as mouthwash. i need to find it raw...

sorry, i said calcium carbonate.

i meant sodium bicarbonate - baking soda.

but, on second thought, i'd prefer calcium carbonate, in powder form, if i can find it. 

...and, flossing doesn't work. 

that's why i'm not doing it.

of course, the best thing you can do for your gums is to clear them of bacteria.

so, it's very delicate, what i'm doing. and, i'm taking a risk that will either pay off dramatically or fail terribly...

it's a trade-off.

if i'm overly concerned about my gums, i'll pick a weaker surfactant, or not pick one at all. but, that may not have strong enough anti-bacterial properties.

conversely, if i want to pick the strongest antibacterial (probably hydrogen peroxide), it could severely damage my gums.

so, i need to pick something in between - and the ingredient in the dish soap (ammonium lauryl sulfate) is the ingredient in between.

unfortunately, i won't know if it's a mistake until it's too late.

my teeth feel better. they feel strong and clean. 

but, this is an experiment in a mouth that needs shock therapy, and i don't recommend you follow along just quite yet.

so, what are all the things i'm looking at?

every day:

breakfast

- start with dish soap, soft brush  [anti-bacterial]

- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]

- wait a half hour

- drink a liter of water

- eat breakfast (fruit bowl)

- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away  [to increase ph of mouth]

- wait a half hour

- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]

- apply prevident with more novamin. spit into cup & dilute with water. wait an hour. [fluoride treatment]

- drink diluted spit. hey, it's my spit. also drink a liter of water.  [recover fluoride]

supper:

- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]

- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]

- wait a half hour

- drink a liter of water

- eat supper (pasta)

- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]

- wait a half hour

- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]

- apply nanohydroxyapatite gel. wait an hour. [remineralization treatment]

- drink a liter of water.

late-night:

- start with dish soap, soft brush [anti-bacterial]

- follow with medium toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [may replace with stannous fluoride] [remove plaque]

- wait a half hour

- drink a liter of water

- eat late-night eggs

- swoosh with calcium carbonate right away [to increase ph of mouth]

- wait a half hour

- brush with soft toothbrush & novamin toothpaste [remove food]

- extra treatment? wait an hour, anyways,

- drink a liter of water.

every three months:

- fluoride varnish

and, i still need to figure out how to eat enough of it, but i'll leave that for the sequence. i don't want to brush with the crest, so i'd might as well eat it. right now, i think i need topical attention more than anything else.

and, all of my stannous fluoride options seem to have disappeared overnight, except the crest. crest's toothpaste leaves a lot to be desired, as i demonstrated. but, they invented this.

i need to be clear: it's not that bad. it's a handful of what might be root lesions and might be root caries, they're very shallow, and i think it's mostly just plaque that can be easily scaled off. but, the whole mouth is also...i'm going to say it's fragile. like, it's not bad right now, but it could get very bad very fast if i don't find some way to strengthen it very quickly.

my teeth have probably lost most of their enamel, but they're healthy and strong everywhere except at the roots. i don't have any dead teeth. i don't need any root canals.

but, i need massive intervention to turn it around before it's too late, if it isn't already.

i knew....but it snuck up on me, too. same old story, right?

so, i'm flipping out because i never thought it'd come to this.

and, i'm launching a full-on assault.

the thing i'm worried about is the dish soap, though. i think it's a good idea. but, if it backfires, it might be a catastrophe.

so, what i've been reading up on this afternoon is the question of whether novamin could be improved by a more bioavailable formulation, and it seems as though there is consensus that it can be. as such, i should seek to include a nanohydroxyapatite option, most likely in the form of a gel.

i'm currently doing the fluoride bath after breakfast. i could potentially include a nanohydroxyapatite bath after lunch, as well.

this is getting complicated, and i should write it down to keep track of it.

http://www.medicinaoral.com/odo/volumenes/v11i10/jcedv11i10p906.pdf

i mean, think about how we approach this for a minute.

we know that our mouths are full of bacteria, and we know that bacteria eats sugar. so, we tell everybody to eat less sugar.

!?

why don't we declare a war on s. mutans and wipe it off the face of the earth, instead?

the acidity is one thing. i need to strengthen them to deal with that.

but, the sugar is only dangerous if you let the bacteria run wild, right? if you kill the bacteria....the sugar's harmless...

that's the mindset i want to adopt: strengthen & cleanse. and, i'll eat what i fucking want, when i fucking want to.

so, should i be concerned about sugar in my diet, not for weight gain, and not for diabetes, but for my teeth?

i've ignored it. but, in fact, there's not much.

sugar in fruit is considered mostly harmless. but, even so, these are low glycemic options - strawberries, avocados, guava peel, kiwi. the banana's a bit more, but it's pretty tame. with those particular fruits, i should be more concerned about acidity and erosion.

the cherry yogurt has sucralose in it and the all bran is actually worse than the vector, overall. the soy i'm using in the fruit bowl has 0 added sugar.

the ice cream is not the best, but i buy premium brand ice cream, and it's actually not the worst - the all bran is. it's not frozen candy canes, it's a high quality product with a lot of cream in it. and whole black cherries, too.

really - the highest sugar component in the breakfast bowl is all bran cereal, which is their healthy, no-sugar flagship product. you could add it up and get something like 15 grams of "added" sugar, mostly from the ice cream and the all bran.

the pasta bowl has carrots, red peppers, beets, pasta, block cheddar cheese, lime, nutritional yeast, sunflower seeds, hemp seeds, garlic, mustard, anchovies, yogurt, hot sauce....where's the sugar? there's some in the soy. it's about 9 g in the amount i'm using. that's it.

likewise, the egg meal doesn't have any added sugar, except in the bread, and that's manageable. there's a touch in the salami. and...

the juice. there's a lot in the juice. but, you'll pry that juice away from my toothless gums. give me dentures or give me death.

that said, i buy actual juice. not drink. juice. it's all no sugar added. i've recently been drinking mostly apple juice, and i've brought some grapefruit juice in for the inositol. i'm very judicious about this - i won't touch fake juice.

and, there's the coffee, which has chocolate soy, which has "organic cane sugar" in it. it's by far the worst thing in the diet, but i'm only taking a tad at a time.

i'll let you interpret this as you may. is my juice really that bad? should i ditch the ice cream and eat more sugar-free yogurt? i dunno. i know i'm not touching my diet, and am not blaming my diet, either, i'm blaming the absence of fluoride...

the doj is no doubt taking this step because they realize how soft the next administration will be on white collar, corporate crime.

i think they should send her to jail.

biden'll probably give her company special access.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-meng-wanzhou-in-talks-with-us-justice-department-to-allow-her-to/