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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on February 03, 2006, 11:59:00 PM
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How has one part of the medical establishment, drug treatment, been allowed to wander so far from that industry?s primary directive of healing people in the most effective, least damaging ways available? In a perfect universe, that is, for the industry is often corrupt and out of synch with its humanity. Ideally, though, it works under the precepts of the Hippocratic Oath. Everything in the oath is geared toward the impeccability of the medical professional. Here are two sentences from that oath in its present form:
I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.
I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon?s knife or the chemist?s drug.
Imagine attempting to insert a tough love mentality into this document:
I will apply, for the benefit of the addicted person, the harshest measures at my disposal, utilizing all forms of physical and mental coercion, while embracing those methods that heighten the discomfort of the patient for the patient?s own good.
When summarized in this context, tough love?s mission statement has no merit. Yet it is the method of choice of an industry worth millions. Why is this one branch of health care permitted to function with an almost total disregard for the basic principles contained within the oath? And why is it tolerated by so many?
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Yeah!!! Excellent juxtapositioning. Rock On!
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All conflict begins the same, even in nature. Every scenerio of conflict is perpetuated by the same initial event. It always begins with 1 enitity believing they have the best idea, the best plan, the best way, the only version of truth, whatever that initial belief is starts the whole chain of events. The enitities begin a push, a struggle to force the opposing believer into submission, for their own good of course
Just as with this war on drugs/percieved weaker species of life. The persons who began the ball of conflict rolling, thought their belief was the rightest. And it is their duty to show the percieved weaker individual the better way. So it is their duty to use whatever means necessary to impose upon another, their superior way. Which is the guilty party? Those who lead or those who follow.
There must come a time in our existance where another option becomes available to us, or we will inevidly self destruct, first as indivuals, then as a species. As many species have proven this to be so, throughout history. We as a thinking, learning species must devise a way to allow all to exist without conflict, Which is only perpetuated by a struggle for control.
There must come a time when all people stop saying, "but I was just following the leader". A time when we learn to take responsibility and be accountable for allowing every other entity the right to exist. We must learn a new way as a whole. At some point self preservation must kick in on a global scale, and we all realize in order to exist, all must be allowed and appreaciated as the creation and existance of life, no matter the form.
Yes, the perverbial Ut0p!a. It seems impossible. The same conflict will always exist. It is a Paradox. To achieve this, someone would have to force a belief on another, and the ball starts rolling again. To be aware of the possibility of Ut0p!a and personally live it, even if your all alone, is the only defense against becoming part of the rolling ball of conflict.
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I dig it! Spiritual Anarchy baby!!
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Utopia would be possible if more of us would start using utOpiates......
You're onto something about the drug war, and the drug warriors are right.....WE ARE A THREAT TO THEM AND THEIR WAY OF LIFE. We are Homo Superior, the culmination of evolution and the synergistic use of outside chemical sources to bolster our awareness and make us BETTER THAN non-druggies. We are the future of the human race, and drug prohibition is merely one of the symptoms of the death rattle of Homo Shitheadicus, the non-drug taking evolutionary dead end that is terrified (and rightly so) of the New Beings that have emerged through the use of mind-expanding and otherwise psychoactive chemicals. Evolution is now happening in the realm of the mind, the psyche, and we as drug users are in the vanguard of the movement. "Guns and tanks and riot gas can't stop you from smoking grass". Their methods are primitive and annoying, and while they may slow the inevitable tide, they cannot stop it. These non-drug using dinosaurs are on the way out, all we need to do is keep using drugs, the rest will fall into place as part of Nature's grand design, we are the future, they are the moldy, decaying past. Sure, the old Hebe and his wife, and their ilk, promote all kinds of obstacles to our rightful ascendency, but we are smarter, stronger, and better than our non-drug using opponents. It's them or us, baby, and we're gonna win it.......they will disappear like the brontosaurus, as long as we keep sparking the evolutionary mutations that make us superior, by using drugs.
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Homo Shitheadicus
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On 2006-02-05 09:17:00, Anonymous wrote:
WE ARE A THREAT TO THEM AND THEIR WAY OF LIFE. We are Homo Superior, the culmination of evolution and the synergistic use of outside chemical sources to bolster our awareness and make us BETTER THAN non-druggies.
No, my darlin good friend. It's t'other way `round. The use of outside chemicals is just a sign of superior survival instinct and acumen. There must be something better, we know damned well we're copetent to find it and this is just one of many avenues to explore. That is what makes us better. Personally, I just don't enjoy the opiates. They remind me of my childhood, fighting off sleep and missing out on the interesting, vital adult matters. I prefer my solvants, thanks. To each his own. But it ain't the muse that makes the man. T'is the other way `round.
The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
-- D. E. Knuth, 1967