http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/10/lane.html
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/28/059.html
In our society being bored or socially aukward is now a mental illness deserving of constant expensive medication. Nevermind that medication has side effects like bleeding from the eyes, at least you wont feel embarassed by your bleeding eyes anymore. All this manipulation of meaning is done by the pharmacuitcal companies that dont want to cure disease anymore, they want to create legal narcotics that we have to buy monthly to boost their profit margins and they discovered that its easier to make an inconvenient part of everyday life, for which there is already a drug, into a mental illness than it is to research a cure for AIDS.
At least in the Brave New World there was promiscuity to look foreward to. The really sad thing is that all the distopian futures written about and feared over the last century and a half are coming true. Not (entirely) through the will of an evil dictatorial government, but because its profitable over the short term to hurt other people and the environment which they inhabit.
This is why capitalism has the capicity to destroy itself, why market forces are not a substitute ofr morality, and why business ethics are not ethical.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/28/059.html
In our society being bored or socially aukward is now a mental illness deserving of constant expensive medication. Nevermind that medication has side effects like bleeding from the eyes, at least you wont feel embarassed by your bleeding eyes anymore. All this manipulation of meaning is done by the pharmacuitcal companies that dont want to cure disease anymore, they want to create legal narcotics that we have to buy monthly to boost their profit margins and they discovered that its easier to make an inconvenient part of everyday life, for which there is already a drug, into a mental illness than it is to research a cure for AIDS.
At least in the Brave New World there was promiscuity to look foreward to. The really sad thing is that all the distopian futures written about and feared over the last century and a half are coming true. Not (entirely) through the will of an evil dictatorial government, but because its profitable over the short term to hurt other people and the environment which they inhabit.
This is why capitalism has the capicity to destroy itself, why market forces are not a substitute ofr morality, and why business ethics are not ethical.
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