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Merchants of Disillusion
Who are the Merchants of Disillusion and in what ways do they
disillusion? Oh, let me count the ways:
- Our government: You know the ones... Those
foul demons who design the food pyramid wrong time and time
again. Ever notice the food pyramid follows the food
trends we see on TV? We wouldn't be led astray by a
department of our government designed to keep us
"healthy", would we? They wouldn't lie to us
to line their own pockets, right? Right?
Most of us just give up at a certain level of "old age" and accept what we've
heard all our lives is our fate.
The government knows this and so does Big Pharma. They also know that
most of us believe we are not personally accountable for our health - it's our
doctor's problem, not ours. The doc figures it all out and we just take
the pills. The drug companies spend huge amounts of money marketing their
poisons directly to the consumer so that we ask for it by name before we even
get a diagnosis. Heck, we don't even
need a disease because if you claim a symptom loudly enough, your doctor will be
"inclined to treat you". Remember they are treating symptoms NOT
curing a disease.
Do you know why the drug companies spend all that
money marketing directly to consumers?
Because
they're making enough money to make it worthwhile.
In fact, we do a lot of marketing for them. I often hear people brag about how many different pills they take a day. They boast about taking the trendy, new "status" drugs as if the fact that they got a prescription validates how sick they really are. People talk around the water cooler about how bad their migraines are, how debilitating their PMS, how crippling their arthritis, etc.
It's almost as if it were a competition. "My disease is way more miserable than your disease! It's a wonder I get through the days... work is lucky I show up at all." It's as if this disease validates all their excuses for their crappy,
unfulfilled lives and proves we are not in control at all. We don't know
who's in the projection box, but it's not us. Being sick and miserable also validates a certain lack of performance, not just at work, but in life.
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