Get Sick Quick and Save The Health Industry
Science is a toolkit, not a solution, and tools get used in wild and wonderful ways. You can climb a mountain with your ice-pick, or stick it in the head of a communist maniac. Every great tool has the potential to harm, and when scientists unite with salesmen, horrors can and do happen. Unfortunately, the most unholy unions and the major repeat offenders are found in the world of medical science. About fifty billion pounds too late, it turns out that just like covid jabs, the happy pills don't cure anything. Read on.
Now that the fabulously profitable pharmaceutical industry hits the jackpot every year, their financial clout buys all the lies Google can stack up on everyone's 'search results'. So don't expect a swift or unbiased answer to any sceptical inquiries about popular commercial drugs on the internet. Where Big Pharma are concerned, the only information you'll get is they information they want you to have.
A journey into the recent past, however, can give us a glimpse of where the commercial anti-depressant scam was heading. In 2011, an article in the Harvard Medical School's online journal revealed that in the USA "23% of women aged 40-50 take antidepressants."
That piece was headlined Astounding Increase in Anti-Depressant Use by Americans. [To read it CLICK HERE] Among several startling revelations was the news that between 1998 and 2008 anti-depressant use had increased by 400%. One in 10 adults were reckoned to be users. One can only guess what the number will be today, fourteen years later. But why would so many consumers be lured into announcing themselves as 'clinically depressed?'
WHAT GOES UP...
There's a philosophical side to the whole idea of 'curing' depression. While the "pursuit of happiness" is something we all undertake, it was always debatable whether or not happiness is our default setting. Given even a vague knowledge of history and a couple of decades of life experience, plenty of us could and would argue that the natural state is actually a mix of frustration, hope, sadness, optimism, disappointment and confusion. Happiness, from this view, is a welcome but inconsistent by-product of positive effort and/or good luck.
If common sense is applied to human behaviour, we don't ignore the relationship between cause and effect. We observe that when something bad is being 'cured', we see less of it until, eventually, it disappears. About a hundred years ago, for example, simply by learning to drink clean, fresh water and avoiding impure water, one of the major threats to human life was eradicated.
Indeed, there is a plaque on the island where I live which recalls a cholera outbreak in the 19th century that was eventually traced to the polluted waters of the river from which half the population drank. (Those islanders who made a point of mixing whisky with their water were untouched by the epidemic, while teetotalers invariably succumbed to the plague. Which is a most welcome endorsement of my own lifestyle choices).
When it comes to 'mental' health however, cause and effect are far from crystal clear. Although the effects are obvious -people acting crazy- the causes are often invisible. If your mother starts crucifying mice on the kitchen door and explains she is trying to 'please the hungry Goat-Lord' you'll know she's nuts, but probably not why.
ARE YOU MAD?
On the other hand, the question of who is crazy and who is not has never been easy to answer. If you spent half your week staring blankly into space, silent and motionless, your nearest and dearest would soon call for help. But certain religions would say that kind of behaviour is not just healthy but essential.
For sure, Eskimos looked pretty damn crazy when polar explorers first discovered them. Who on earth wants to live for months at a time in a tangle of greasy bodies piled under a heap of animal-furs inside a dome of ice?
Conversely, how would a Masai warrior react to the sight of fat idle city-kids spending all day and night staring at lumps of throbbing plastic gripped in their fingers?
Mental health issues have always been in the eye of the beholder. It usually comes down to the question of what kinds of behaviour we are prepared to put up with. For the last few thousand years, this problem was generally resolved by creating laws within which societies could operate. 'Law' and 'order' were linked, because one led to the other.
Given enough laws -and enough enforcement- people could learn to live with the occasionally wacky behaviour of others. By the twentieth century, law -particularly in Europe and America- had evolved into various sophisticated systems that kept the worst activities to a minimum while deliberately permitting a pretty large range of eccentric behaviour. You do you was the way forward.
TAKE THE CURE
But even as the dirty business of survival became relatively easy, law and order was never going to be enough to satisfy human appetites. For the pampered peoples of the post-war era, happiness was no longer just welcomed, but actively demanded. Inevitably, like a shark detecting blood in the water, the Health Industry cruised into the gap between the limited supply of happiness and the ever-growing demand.
In an ideal world, industry would always produce 'solutions' to actual problems. But for industry to succeed, all that is needed is an affordable product and a strong advertising campaign. Industry requires sales, not solutions. By the nineteen-twenties, most industries had realised the advertising was far more important than the product, as can be seen below.
If pills could 'cure' depression, depression should have dwindled to vanishing point beneath the staggering trillions of happy pills already consumed. The exact opposite is what has happened. This is logical, because once health becomes an industry, for industrial purposes the supply of ill-health must expand, not contract.
So the formal debunking of the 'miraculous' anti-depressants was no surprise to those of us who had noticed that since their arrival there has been an explosion of extreme mental health conditions.
We have the most-medicated populations ever, yet the least well-balanced. It's blindingly obvious that anti-depressants don't cure depression. They may obscure the experience, re-direct attention, or provide a temporary improvement in mood, but the same could be said of whisky or opium -or exercise and fresh air.
We all know people who began taking uppers and very few who ever broke the habit. Junkies are precisely what the industry requires. For the same reason, it is entirely logical that the covid shots weaken the immune system-which they must certainly do. If they strengthened immunity, nobody would ever need another jab; end of profits, full stop. As they said in The Godfather, its not personal, Sonny, it's just business.
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