Aug. 11th, 2021
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Aug. 11th, 2021 08:00 pm"To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality."
(P.-J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, trans. John Beverley Robinson. London: Freedom Press, 1923, p. 294)
(P.-J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, trans. John Beverley Robinson. London: Freedom Press, 1923, p. 294)
Medicine as religion
Aug. 11th, 2021 08:07 pmThe premise that we are born defective and require the injection of diseases and toxins to acquire or maintain good health defies all common sense and logic.
Years back (2004), I read an excellent book by french author Olivier Clerc (Medicine, Religion et Peur; l'influence cachee des croyances) which laid out the idea that medicine has become the new world religion.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/1932181148?condition=used&tag=bookfinder-ca-b-20
(Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices)
physicians have taken the place of priests;
vaccination plays the same initiatory role as baptism, and is accompanied by the same threats and fears;
the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation;
the fight against disease has replaced the fight against sin;
eradication of viruses has taken the place of exorcising demons;
the hope of physical immortality (cloning, genetic engineering) has been substituted for the hope of eternal life;
pills have replaced the sacrament of bread and wine;
donations to cancer research take precedence over donations to the church;
a hypothetical universal vaccine could save humanity from all its illnesses, as the Saviour has saved the world from all its sins;
the medical power has become the government’s ally, as was the Catholic Church in the past;
"charlatans” are persecuted today as "heretics” were yesterday;
dogmatism rules out promising alternative medical theories;
the same absence of individual responsibility is now found in medicine, as previously in the Christian religion;
patients are alienated from their bodies, as sinners used to be from their souls.
Years back (2004), I read an excellent book by french author Olivier Clerc (Medicine, Religion et Peur; l'influence cachee des croyances) which laid out the idea that medicine has become the new world religion.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/1932181148?condition=used&tag=bookfinder-ca-b-20
(Modern Medicine: The New World Religion: How Beliefs Secretly Influence Medical Dogmas and Practices)
physicians have taken the place of priests;
vaccination plays the same initiatory role as baptism, and is accompanied by the same threats and fears;
the search for health has replaced the quest for salvation;
the fight against disease has replaced the fight against sin;
eradication of viruses has taken the place of exorcising demons;
the hope of physical immortality (cloning, genetic engineering) has been substituted for the hope of eternal life;
pills have replaced the sacrament of bread and wine;
donations to cancer research take precedence over donations to the church;
a hypothetical universal vaccine could save humanity from all its illnesses, as the Saviour has saved the world from all its sins;
the medical power has become the government’s ally, as was the Catholic Church in the past;
"charlatans” are persecuted today as "heretics” were yesterday;
dogmatism rules out promising alternative medical theories;
the same absence of individual responsibility is now found in medicine, as previously in the Christian religion;
patients are alienated from their bodies, as sinners used to be from their souls.