Feeling Despite Pharmaceutical Drugs?
My friend Ivan Staroversky found this great quote from Hippocrates: “It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”
Ivan is an alternative health care consultant who helps people get over their illnesses and find their purpose in life. In a recent blog post Ivan writes of the Pharmaceutical industry by quoting the movie Equalibrium:
“In the first years of the 21st century, a third World War broke out. Those of us who survived knew mankind could never survive a fourth; that our own volatile natures could simply no longer be risked. So we have created a new arm of the law: The Grammaton Cleric, whose sole task it is to seek out and eradicate the true source of man’s inhumanity to man - his ability to feel.
“Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anesthetized in stride, we accept as fair sacrifice. For we embrace Prozium in its unifying fullness and all that it has done to make us great.” - Equalibrium
Ivan goes on to say “Reread the above quote from the movie and replace The Grammaton Cleric with the pharmaceutical industry and prozium with pharmaceutical drugs.” Read the full post here.
