Invent the disease, sell the cure.

Image source; Jerry Stahl

So I came across this article about Jerry Stahl in Co.Create via a Uni reading, about his writing history and his new book "Happy Mutant Baby Pills" encompassing pregnancy, drug addiction and how the farce of the pharmaceutical companies, doctors, via diagnosis of ADHD and other medical conditions.  What a fast insight articulated about what we all know about in our society.  How governments and large corporations do things in our 'benefit' but really it is based on greed and cover ups to varying degrees.  Progress covered in a cycle of deceit and cover ups.  I love his line that using Round Up in your garden is more toxic for you then shooting up heroin between your toes. 

So we have been sold the by products of large companies that are really not fit for consumption but are put into our water, glass of fluoride water anyone.  Also the fact there are more people abusing prescription drugs than illegally bought ones, house wives on prozac, people selling unwanted morphine tablets to heroin users for them to crush and inject.

This man, Dr Gabor Mate` was mentioned in the article, and his Ted talk is something that speaks so much sense.  The way people have been treated over time has led to lifestyles of addiction.  His explanation of addiction and why people do it and whether we are genetically predisposed to it can also be explained through how people have been displaced.  Progress without taking into account it's impact, is not progress.  It is just the manufacturing of new diseases that in the end they will sell the cure for. 

Read for yourself the links provided and make your own conclusion to the environment we live in today, not only externally but within ourselves.