Sell the Pain, Sell the Pills, Sell the dirty water..Machine Messiah

[Guest guest]

Dear Group, thank you for allowing me the space for what I see as benefiting

present and future patients. I'll conclude with this afterthought post and be

silent for a bit as to not monoplolize or hog the bandwidth.

I think it was the Dao de Ching where it said (forgive me if the source

is wrong, I'm a pathetic scholar), 'The sage handles problems while they are

still small/manageable, and the best physician cures disease before it

manifests'. I posted this article only as a reminder of larger Market Forces

that impact our daily practice, but as specialists and sub-specialists, for

example- specializing in the rising tide of pediatric asthma and respiratory

difficulty,(or even if we have a general/family/internal practice) we may not

have time to reflect or consider the powerful unregulated trends driving our

patient base for help. Trends toward industrial centralization that in the

theoretically pure act of quickly and cheaply providing the articles and

products wanted for a higher quality of life, are also undermining that utopian

ideal with ever-increasing toxic body-burdens, climate and soil change, growing

captive unemployed poor class, irreversible environmental and species

loss, besides the discontent (heart break) with the failure of machines to free

people for higher pursuits. In fact the human life is becoming more regimental

and inflexible in order to keep the semi-automated complexes running. Add in

the disruptive pervasive exploitative gorilla tactics of the bull market, and

the lack of funding for 'world-game' type global resource research for policy

steering, and personal/international peace retreats, while pain flourishes and

fills the void.

'Thorns grow where armies march.'

In this group there is no doubt holistic broad minds are attracted here, but

key is awareness that these things are so. Planetary science and futurology is

kind of my specialty(i.e. developments in sea change, international sea and

space law, wildlife preservation areas). So many people don't know how critcal

these things are, or even the source of the problem, so it becomes difficult to

realize that there are still alternative ways to exist and make our societies

function without continuing with gun-boat diplomacy that is causing revolt and

civil war.

The mainstream media edifice is not much help as a tool of global

perspective, it is more a avenue of social conditioning and market testing and

engineering.

My point is as medical workers, we see, if we live long enough, the

unusual/unatural increase in diseases brought about by maybe good motivation,

but deleterious results.

In order to 'handle problems while they are still small', and, 'cure disease

before it manifests', we need to understand the etiology, and work with it. And

I know it ain't gonna be easy. Thanks.

ykcul_ritsym <ykcul_ritsym wrote:

http://www.redflagsweekly.com/storm_warnings/poison.html

 

By Ashley Simmons Hotz

 

May 15, 2002 - The huge transnational companies that

produce toxic chemicals found in pesticides,

herbicides and industrial and household products

profit not only from the sale of these products, but

also from the symptoms and chronic illnesses that

they can trigger.

The same chemical companies that produce toxic

chemicals also produce prescription drugs,

veterinary medicines, a wide array of medical

products and imaging technologies, hold cancer

treatment and medical device patents, and a produce

a staggering assortment of over-the-counter

palliatives.

 

Families with toxin induced illnesses often spend

large sums for drugs and medical treatment.

 

This circle of profit is not conspiracy theory, but

an easily provable fact.

 

Below are chem/pharm web sites for the largest

companies in the world. There you can see quickly

and clearly that these companies profit from all

sides of the picture.