CNU Is The Truth. I'm Damn Near ... More Impressed With This Cat, Than I Am With Myself.cnulan said...
I grew up in Wichita Kansas. I left there in 1981. My entire life, there was only one large pharmacy in the entire city and it was directly across the street from the largest hospital operated by the Methodists. Wesley Medical Center. (now HCA Wesley Medical Center - privatized in the late 80's by the Healthcare Corporation of America - shamefully - I actually wrote up the due diligence study for HCA financing in 1986/87 whilst still a young dweeb in the employ of Bank of Boston in their Venture Capital division - now most all U.S. hospitals have been similarly privatized)
In the intervening 25 plus years, that pharmacy has multiplied dozens and dozens of times across the city (~400K people). You'll find a CVS/Walgreens/RiteAid/Osco combination at many, many major intersections.
So you got pharmaceutical companies with profits on loan from God, a privatized medical industry in which pharmaceutical reps are the entertainment and lobbying function for physicians (no exaggeration) and you've got the big box retailers pumping out mass quantities of SSRI and amphetamine related drugs (like never before in the history of the west) mostly for women and children, and you've got an education establishment that fully backs and endorses the medication of children that they formerly taught at a more advanced level.
How did it come to pass that the drug consumption needs of the community grew so exponentially as to be able to support this proliferation?
Oh, also when I was a boy - there was no such thing as ADHD/ADD. The diagnosis didn't exist and the majority of the kids who would now be diagnosed as such were typically channeled into Gifted/Talented/Creative or Advanced Learning Classes designed to feed them with more information set at a more challenging level than for the mainstream of kids in the public schools.
If this doesn't sound like a neuroeconomic governance conspiracy, then I don't know precisely what you would designate as such?
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The other side of the coin in all this is Big Agribusiness. With our food injected with hormones, enough sugar in one sitting to fuel a car for 10 years, chemical preservatives, etc., people are going bonkers - perfect, controllable zombies, easily reactionary to the stimuli injected to them through their new plasma tv's and iPod's.
Did you ever see the movie Requiem for a Dream? One of the most disturbing pieces of cinema I've ever seen, but well done and so real.
this is a perfect example of social freedom as opposed to spiritual freedom
BK Bedouin,
Not sure I understand. Can you please elaborate?
Let me elaborate, so there are two kinds of freedom the social is freedom from the bonds of others and spiritual freedom is what you always speak of Dina, where the self may be free but perhaps may be still a slave to their own lower desires, the lust, the ego etc...
in this way, this Meech character was clearly acting in his own self interest, clearly did no care how his actions impacted others, made a heck of a lot of money, was on top of the world so to speak but was a slave to his greed, which in reality he was not free at all...
Hmmm...
Discussing "freedom", drug dealers are probably more "free" than most slaves on the plantation popping prescription drugs. He did things his way, ran his own business, and offered a product.
No one forced anyone to buy it.
II,
On the worst days when I have to force myself to go into the plantation I wonder about the freedom the dudes donning white T's on the corner feel. Believe me, I know it's a fantasy in my mind, I know there are many facets to them as dope boyz that make them unfree.
In my job, I'm not risking getting arrested everyday. I know, I know, I get it. But on days when I don't want to go in and make sure the big wigs great-great grandchildren are taken care of for the next 3 generations, I dream of being able to at least determine my day on that day.
This doesn't even take into account those who have no other options. You know, the ones with the Scarlet F on their chests. (Felons)
Honestly, I just find the conflict between 'legal' and 'illegal' means of survival fascinating. And of course who decides what is 'legal' and 'illegal' is pretty interesting to think about also.
Honestly, I just find the conflict between 'legal' and 'illegal' means of survival fascinating. And of course who decides what is 'legal' and 'illegal' is pretty interesting to think about also.
MJB deftly touches the fulcrum of consensus reality....,
"Consensus reality" ...
Please elaborate.
Your boy David Mills demanded a tutorial. The special ed sessions that he requested just adjourned a little while ago.
You and I each write about consensus reality all the time DV.
MJB,
The distinction between legal and illegal is enough to keep one pondering for a lifetime. Isn't it?
It certainly ties into the concensus reality CNulan and DV discuss.
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