Parasites Aren’t the Enemy. Your Sanitized Life Is.
For 99.99% of human history, having parasites was the default. Modern sanitation is a 150-year anomaly that has triggered an epidemic of autoimmune diseases. The story of Fan Kuai eating raw pork at the Hongmen Banquet isn’t about bravery—it’s about how our revulsion to parasites is a luxury our ancestors never had. We are not clean by nature; we are clean by industrial accident.