Pharmakeia, Part II: Misery

"People aren't living longer, they're dying longer." -Eating You Alive, 2018 documentary

The current medical system is not designed to heal. Instead, it seeks to keep people sick in order for a large sub-class to make a living off of their suffering. This sub-class consists of doctors and nurses, medical administrators, billers, hospital construction crews, health insurance agents, university professors, scientific researchers, CDC and FDA employees, drug czars, and a bevy of other professionals who participate in the largest ongoing swindle in history.

The Blind Leading the Blind

In most cases, I believe medical professionals are mostly innocent of any deliberate plan to keep people sick.  To quote Bruce Hornsby and the Range, that's just the way it is and some things will never change.  The state of modern medicine is a dumpster fire, but in the minds of all those who derive their bank account deposits from medical grift, it's the only dumpster fire they've ever known.  They are used to the heat and the smell.  Medical professionals do as they are told, whether it is mom and dad telling them to get a job and "medical receptionist" is the first thing they are able to fall into or when society tells them to become a doctor and they discover they can memorize a great deal about anatomy and physiology, so might as well go with the flow and go into debt. 

Currently, only 40 medical schools in the US require a minimum of 25 hours of nutritional training for doctors.  Even if doctors suddenly start learning about the role of nutrition in human health while in medical school, the FDA dictates the Food Pyramid.  The FDA is squarely in the pockets of Big Pharma and Big Agriculture, which is why its Food Pyramid has recommended at least 2-3 servings of animal flesh and secretions per day since its inception in 1992.  

Animal protein generally causes cancer and disease, but you'll hear that from very few doctors because they have never been incentivized to connect the dots of all of our major diseases and animal flesh and secretion foods.  Why would they?  It's much easier to do what you are told.  We are told to believe and trust doctors despite obvious evidence that their diets are not working for them personally.  My current family doctor has battled chronic disease and cancer.  I have known many doctors who drink heavily or pop lots of pills.  In general, doctors aren't typically healthy people, which has as much to do with their stress levels as the food and drugs they consume.  I get it; they're human.  Nevertheless, considering their advice is supposed to be the gospel and "Ask your doctor" is the catchphrase of our era, shouldn't we expect a degreed health advisor to be, oh gee, I dunno... healthy?  I'm healthier than most of the doctors who have ever treated me.  I don't take any drugs, OTC or prescription.  I don't drink excessively, I engage in regular moderate exercise, and I don't indulge any addictions to the point where I become entrapped by them.  If I am supposed to ask a cancer victim for advice on health, isn't that like asking someone who regularly gets in car accidents for driving advice?  Should I ask someone who constantly loses at tennis about how to improve my game?  Shall I ask a person who has never completed a coherent novel how to write fiction?  

Failed Routines and the Definition of Insanity

Allopathic medicine does not treat root causes because it only knows how to treat symptoms.  If you treat a symptom of a disease without addressing the root cause, it is much like lopping off the above ground portion of a dandelion.  The dandelion will still thrive despite the fact you cut off its foliage.  A relative of mine (RIP) had three bypass surgeries.  His chest was cracked open over and over again and his heart routed of cholesterol snakes.  Each time he went in for heart surgery he was diminished, his mental power and his body strength fading.  He never considered changing his diet or becoming more active.  He was content in his misery.  Like many oldsters, he almost seemed to enjoy regaling everyone within listening range with the epic litany of his suffering, pain, and expensive hospital stays.  

The first way allopaths like to treat disease is to amputate.  When I was looking up how to treat my cat's gum inflammation on the internet, I was saddened but not at all surprised to see allopathic veterinarians recommending the pre-emptive removal of the cat's teeth so they did not decay and cause inflammation.  I was reminded of Angelina Jolie's removal of her healthy breasts because she tested positive for the breast cancer gene.  Removing an organ, teeth, a limb, or one's breasts should be seen as a last resort, but allopaths have a major fetish for doing it ahead of schedule.  Sometimes an -ectomy is the only thing that will work, and in that case, full lasers ahead.  Removing a cat's teeth because their gums might become inflamed is barbaric.  On the upside, I was able to find an herbal remedy with calendula that has eased my cat's mouth swelling considerably, no drastic measures necessary. 

The only time allopaths seem to consider prevention is when a child is questioning his or her gender role.  An entire field of medical profiteers rush to outcomes of chemical and physical castration for minors who might just be plain old gay or lesbian at age twelve, or who might only be curious because they're twelve.  

The second way allopaths like to treat symptoms is with drugs.  Allopaths are glorified drug dealers.  This is fine and good if your medical ailments are confined to a case of pinkeye and one feral cat bite within the last fifteen years like mine.  It's not good at all if you have chronic pain and an entire system determined to keep you in chronic pain so you'll depend on their pharmaceutical products.  Antibiotics are especially insidious as they are pumped into animals who are later consumed as food; as a result bacteria have evolved into super-bacteria.  

The Panacea and the Scapegoat

In the same way a kid becomes popular at school, there is often a "food of the moment" or an ingredient that gets propelled into the spotlight.  Turmeric is the current It Food.  Soon it will be shoved to the wayside for another cure-all, which will be turned into high-priced supplements complete with infomercials.  Likewise, there are ingredients that become damned as The Great Evil in the form of scapegoats.  Right now, the heady role of Evil Food is being played by wheat gluten.  Vegetable oils run a close second, and refined sugar is a distant third.  Back in the 1920s, the Evillest Food was surely the demon Alcohol.  Vaccines were to be the panacea to end all panaceas.  Unfortunately, their benefits, much like the severity of the Coronavirus, turned out to be imaginary.  Far more real were their side effects, including permanently damaging heart inflammation, type two diabetes, tremors, and death.  

Panaceas and scapegoats are what you do when you have no idea what you are doing.  The panacea is the sought after cure all and the scapegoat is the kill all everyone loves to hate.  The panacea is the long-awaited Savior who comes down from Heaven and delivers everything the masses could ever want for free, just as long as they have repented and dedicated their souls only to him as the One God.  The scapegoat is the evilly evil villain who is blamed for all of the world's ills burning in the eternal lake of fire.  He's the food or herbal version of Donald Trump or if you occupy the other side of the political spectrum, Klaus Schwab.

Nursing Homes

I used to bring students to nursing homes when I began my music teaching career in the 90s and in the 00s.  Whenever I have hosted small performances in nursing homes, there are always at least two or three child performers who are afraid to go in.  Considering the performances involve fewer than ten child pianists, singers, or guitarists, two or three is a significant number.  The student's fears are not unfounded, because the performers who do the mini-shows are beset with plaintive pleas from the residents who wish to "go home" or who are generally confused, sad, and begging for help.  

The nursing home-as-business-model is yet another way our civilization cannibalizes its own in the final stages of collapse.  In this way it is similar to the hospitals I frequently rail against for their outsized role in what is left of the real economy.  Though there are some people who want to be in nursing homes, from my experience, it is where you warehouse the elderly until they die because the elderly are no longer respected as sources of competence or wisdom.  

Coronatarianism was the ultimate straw in breaking any kind of observation or oversight of nursing homes and hospitals.  Both are now wholesale murder camps depending on the caprice and the amount of payoffs given to the nursing home or hospital administrators in question. Lockdowns and visitor prohibitions were utterly convenient and removed seeing eyes from potential scenes of medical neglect, abuse, or just bumbling hapless idiocy.  The poor souls crying for my students to take them home from the pricey assisted living facility now have absolutely zero advocates.  Any potentially caring outsider is forbidden from entry and the workers on the inside of the facility have either been brainwashed or fired for not receiving the experimental MRNA therapy.  

Our Era as Dystopian Fiction

I believe civilizations of the future, if they remember us at all, will view our civilization as stark raving insane, especially when it came to matters of physical health.  They will wonder why having access to convenient machines drove us so bonkers.  They will pity us for our dependence on "advanced" technology such as dialysis and insulin and they will laugh at the videos of some douchebag biking through the forest preserve with his breathable spandex bodysuit and his vital sign tracking smart helmet.  They will wonder why doctors who took the Hippocratic Oath could not figure out the basic statement "let thy medicine be thy food and let food be thy medicine".  They will tsk tsk at the nurses who took the Nightingale Pledge and who proceeded to stick vaccine needles in arms, when out of all the people, they alone should have known better.  Most of all, I think they'll scratch their heads over how we lost touch with simple, daily realities of wellness.