Michael Moore.com : Dude, Where’s My Country? – I may not agree with everything he says (okay, so I do agree with most of it), but no one can argue with his incredible ability to dig up dirt on the most corrupt of our society. Well, I suppose the most corrupt of our society would argue, but outside of the brain-washed masses, who listens to them?
Monthly Archive for September, 2003
Covering the Pain – Why is it that the most strung out in our society are either the poorest, the richest, or the psychologist?
Simple economics tends to explain the first two options, but ultimately, the third group is probably the cause for most concern. If those whom we have entrusted with our mental health are the most likely to succumb to “self medication”, what does that say for the quality of the service they provide? Add to this disturbing trend the equally disturbing likelyhood that the health-care provider in question has been receiving under-the-table, or more likely overt, payments from pharmecuticals and we have a whole new drug culture that makes the all other drug cultures look benign.
There seems to be two cultures arising in the states: the pro-freedom and the pro-pharma. Both camps are promoting their choice of drug to the public, but one is pushing for legalization of some relatively harmless substances, while the other is pushing for the legalization of profit making at the expense of true medical breakthrough. Which side are you on? We don’t need anymore wonder drugs that keep us from getting fat, though we are, or that keep us from feeling emotion, though we are emotionally drained by the day to day grind of a life for which we didn’t ask.
I’m not saying that we should or should not legalize recreational drugs, or that we should or should not put tighter standards on the creations of profit-mongering pharmecuticals. (And yes, I know that pharmecuticals have done some good while creating the bad.) I would ask that we think about what exactly it means to support a drug culture – no matter which drug culture that may be.
Mobile Hippie – An Alternative in Motion – My portfolio and resume are up and available for perusal.
Einstein Archives Online – This incredibly detailed website tells us everything we ever wanted to know about one of the greatest minds in history. Let’s face it, he has cool hair too.