burtlancast
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aquaman said:burtlancast said:Everything is backwards.
Everything is upside-down.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality.
I know this is off topic (and most likely going to open a can of worms), but since I have to read this crap everyday I thought I'd comment on it. I say crap because it can easily infest people's mind, "everyone's out to get me", "the world is f***ed" etc.
I do partially agree with your statement, but would add MAY to all the sentences.
Doctors MAY destroy health etc.
Religion MAY destroy spirituality.
I think having a blanket statement about the world like you put up there will only serve to make your life worse, and you more negative and less connected to others. Personally I've had doctors help me and my family, I've had lawyers get back 100s of 1000s of dollars stolen from me, I'm f***ing happy to live in the UK and in this era as opposed to most other countries and time-frames etc etc. Religion can be a path to spirituality, equally it can be abused and done incorrectly and lead to hatred and closed-mindedness.
Personally I like your writing but I don't want to read that footer everyday, I don't want to be infected by its negativity. And therefore the only way to not read it would be to ignore you I think. Shame we can't block just the footers.
EVERYTHING is not backwards. Some things are.
This is of course not my original statement: it was written by Michael Ellner, a gentleman involved in alternative health, and whose main points i do not agree with, except for this statement, that has made him world famous.
This being the Ray Peat forum, i will discuss only the medical aspects, toegether with the obvious ramifications to university knowledge , media information and justice law.
My opinion is medecine is useful only in case of trauma. If you break a leg, get run down by a car, or get shot, you certainly want to go to the hospital.
But when it comes to degenerative diseases, medecine does certainly more harm than good. I can quote some passages from Ray about medecine, university curriculum, media information and law(lessness) that goes much further than the content of my footer.
When it comes to religion, i included it more for the sake of not truncating the original author of this statement, than anything else . All these disciplines that Ellner cites are subtly interconnected and participate in the deception. If current organised religions were trully free and true to their ideals, all the other disciplines would not be able to deceive the masses like they constantly do, because people would be told the truth.
With the internet, we can now research things much deeper that we could ever do before, and it certainly appears that it isn't a case of " IT MAY" as you wrote.
Things are trully backwards; medecine trully kills people, medias trully disinform, governaments and laws trully enslave.
About university curriculum and monopoly laws:
Knowledge isn’t a commodity, especially not a fungible commodity, as the medical business sees it. Consciousness and culture are part of the life process. It is exactly the commoditization of medical knowledge that makes it dangerous, and generally stupid. Doctors buy their knowledge, and then resell it over and over; it’s valuable as a commodity, so its value has to be protected by the equivalent of a copyright, the system of laws establishing the profession. Without its special status, its worthlessness would be quickly demonstrated. When A.C. Guyton wrote his textbook of medical physiology (the most widely used text in the world) in the 1950s, it was trash; as it was studied and applied by generations of physicians, it was still trash. The most compliant patients who bought their treatment from the most authoritative, Guytonesque, doctors were buying their own disability and death.
Each time you learn something, your consciousness becomes something different, and the questions you ask will be different; you don’t know what the next appropriate question will be when you haven’t assimilated the earlier answers. Until you see something as the answer to an urgent question, you can’t see that it has any value. The unexpected can’t be a commodity. When people buy professional knowledge they get what they pay for, a commodity in a system that sustains ignorance.
About the justice system:
It remains to be seen whether a government can be made to stop giving public funds to corporations, and instead, to begin enforcing the law against them--and against those in the agencies who participated in their crimes.
In the U.S., the death penalty is sometimes reserved for "aggravated homicide." If those who kill hundreds of thousands for the sake of billions of dollars in profits are not committing aggravated homicide, then it must be that no law written in the English language can be objectively interpreted, and the legal system is an Alice in Wonderland convenience for the corporate state.
Sorry if that seems pessimistic, but i would rather sound that way than accept the current status quo, which makes everyone (but a few) a loser.
We all deserve much better.