Insofar as our economic system became an engine powered specifically and primarily by "consumer consumption" we always see such products in search of market consumers. Countless things are sold not to meet an organic need but a manufactured desire. Whole swaths of business school experience is organized around developing the skills needed to create consumer desire for a product by tapping human desire for a fleeting sensation or experience which often exists only as fantasy. Disney and Apple are examples of success in this space. Now Instagram offers the influencers' manufactured, fantastical "reality" as The Best something to be purchased rather than lived, each in our own way, imperfectly. We've all been trained to be marketed to for the answers to the big questiins rather than be.taught how to wrestle with them for a rich lifetime. It's nearly impossible to resist once the buttons triggering health fears are combined with those connected to our deep need for love and acceptance. Obesity or HIV or (now) icky naturally derived sexuality all have ties to whether or not one will be an outcast in the torqued and unreal cyber social landscape. People seek relief from the omnipresent psychosocial discomforts of *being imperfectly human* by "treating " these seemingly conquerable physical conditions which are- conveniently for the manufacturers- are also actually vaguely defined and/or open-ended. The alternative of working the discomforts inherent in being a human has been presented as cruel or impossible or unnecessary. Our current times seem more and more to be the culmination of a species wide spiritual crisis.
In a way the medical system must be in a panic, trying so hard to push these drugs. At least for the HIV meds, they have to know sooner or later people are going to wake up and realize the sky isn't falling down around them without having taken these drugs. Given the poor uptake rates, and then given the amount of 'unprotected' sex that gay men are now having, people have to take notice they're not dying in the streets without the pharmas. We're seeing this happen in near real time with the covid shots, the latest batch have abysmal uptake because people are becoming aware. I've mentioned this before, but what's hard about HIV/AIDS is that there's a huge emotional attachment component that covid I don't think has had on the general population. This bond isn't going to be easy to break.
They’re totally panicked. The whole system is infected from the top down. I haven’t even addressed cholesterol drugs (YET). That’s totally wild. But I do agree with you that there is a weird emotional connection with the HIV AIDS story for some people.
Something funny about the Covid vaccines is that I’m seeing people saying these new vaccines aren’t actually boosters, they’re entirely new vaccines because the original “variants” no longer exist. Oh you mean viruses are seasonal? WHAT A CONCEPT.
I haven't studied statins exclusively, but I've heard a few horror stories of side effects. I watched a video a few years back by a smart guy with a Ph.D. in nutrition & biology and explained that for statins you have to treat 60 people to see one benefit, but all 60 people can be subject to the side effects.
I remember going to a math biology conference and seeing a talk where the speaker argued very convincingly that no progress has been made in cancer in fifty years. I believe it. The cancer model is appalling. They cut you up and poison you and you die anyway, while being medicalized to the end. There has to be a better way.
Thank you Rebecca for more disturbing news. As if Truvada and Lupron weren't bad enough, now there's also Ozempic. The clip that mimics a "news" report is pure infomercial and PR hype. The person who willingly swallowed their balloons looks no different to me at all before and after.
You ask about the motive for pushing these shady products. Well there's the obvious endless search for new markets and profits to feed the big pharma beast, but perhaps something more sinister is at play as well-- pushing a transhumanist agenda? We must be ever vigilant and questioning.
the more concerning issue is municipal waters receiving even more toxicity from these human destructive drugs and the impact on an unsuspecting public. when will we ever stop falling for ‘improvement’ scams!? the language around these drugs is deceptive and sinister.
Insofar as our economic system became an engine powered specifically and primarily by "consumer consumption" we always see such products in search of market consumers. Countless things are sold not to meet an organic need but a manufactured desire. Whole swaths of business school experience is organized around developing the skills needed to create consumer desire for a product by tapping human desire for a fleeting sensation or experience which often exists only as fantasy. Disney and Apple are examples of success in this space. Now Instagram offers the influencers' manufactured, fantastical "reality" as The Best something to be purchased rather than lived, each in our own way, imperfectly. We've all been trained to be marketed to for the answers to the big questiins rather than be.taught how to wrestle with them for a rich lifetime. It's nearly impossible to resist once the buttons triggering health fears are combined with those connected to our deep need for love and acceptance. Obesity or HIV or (now) icky naturally derived sexuality all have ties to whether or not one will be an outcast in the torqued and unreal cyber social landscape. People seek relief from the omnipresent psychosocial discomforts of *being imperfectly human* by "treating " these seemingly conquerable physical conditions which are- conveniently for the manufacturers- are also actually vaguely defined and/or open-ended. The alternative of working the discomforts inherent in being a human has been presented as cruel or impossible or unnecessary. Our current times seem more and more to be the culmination of a species wide spiritual crisis.
In a way the medical system must be in a panic, trying so hard to push these drugs. At least for the HIV meds, they have to know sooner or later people are going to wake up and realize the sky isn't falling down around them without having taken these drugs. Given the poor uptake rates, and then given the amount of 'unprotected' sex that gay men are now having, people have to take notice they're not dying in the streets without the pharmas. We're seeing this happen in near real time with the covid shots, the latest batch have abysmal uptake because people are becoming aware. I've mentioned this before, but what's hard about HIV/AIDS is that there's a huge emotional attachment component that covid I don't think has had on the general population. This bond isn't going to be easy to break.
They’re totally panicked. The whole system is infected from the top down. I haven’t even addressed cholesterol drugs (YET). That’s totally wild. But I do agree with you that there is a weird emotional connection with the HIV AIDS story for some people.
Something funny about the Covid vaccines is that I’m seeing people saying these new vaccines aren’t actually boosters, they’re entirely new vaccines because the original “variants” no longer exist. Oh you mean viruses are seasonal? WHAT A CONCEPT.
I haven't studied statins exclusively, but I've heard a few horror stories of side effects. I watched a video a few years back by a smart guy with a Ph.D. in nutrition & biology and explained that for statins you have to treat 60 people to see one benefit, but all 60 people can be subject to the side effects.
I remember going to a math biology conference and seeing a talk where the speaker argued very convincingly that no progress has been made in cancer in fifty years. I believe it. The cancer model is appalling. They cut you up and poison you and you die anyway, while being medicalized to the end. There has to be a better way.
Thank you Rebecca for more disturbing news. As if Truvada and Lupron weren't bad enough, now there's also Ozempic. The clip that mimics a "news" report is pure infomercial and PR hype. The person who willingly swallowed their balloons looks no different to me at all before and after.
You ask about the motive for pushing these shady products. Well there's the obvious endless search for new markets and profits to feed the big pharma beast, but perhaps something more sinister is at play as well-- pushing a transhumanist agenda? We must be ever vigilant and questioning.
People expressing concern about transhumanism are seen as wingnuts but I think there is something to be vigilant about.
the more concerning issue is municipal waters receiving even more toxicity from these human destructive drugs and the impact on an unsuspecting public. when will we ever stop falling for ‘improvement’ scams!? the language around these drugs is deceptive and sinister.
I don’t drink tap water ever. I am very picky about the water I drink. They lost me at fluoride.
well yes. not do i but MANY people do and still bathe in those waters. a serious downstream issue.