This poor fellow is quite put out, like a jilted lover. He spent over a decade making friends in 40 countries telling them about Microsoft Privacy, and no doubt convincing the gullible and willfully ignorant. Now he says...
So what do we see as we look around. Universities starve the classrooms as they jack up rates to pay for treadmills. Treadmills. When I took a sabbatical from work to earn a bachelor's degree, I walked the mile from my apartment to my classes, a couple of times a day. Was never healthier. Medicine is ruined in USA, since we no longer have mutual aid societies providing medicine, the way we excelled. Labor is the handmaiden of the state, and often, the state. Housing is now Soviet in all respects. Food has gone Frankenstein, people dress like children. The law introduces chaos wherever it is consulted. And the religions are calling for human sacrifice, in a Mayan resurgence - the right wing for people to die in war, the left wing for kids to die, but in both instances under the Mayan ethic that others must die so life can better for the rest of us.
But there are signs of hope. The big, bad Catholic Church has a Pope who is talking to atheists and telling Catholics to get on with it, don't look for leadership from sold out bureaucracy. Some kids are eating pork fat and salt and finding health improves. Medical tourism and "cash only" doctors are allowing some improvement in "health care." Scholars are branding themselves instead of allying with the Medallion Universities. Tailors are finding work. The unions look desolate, but perhaps an independent trade union movement will re-emerge. The pendulum continues toward insanity in housing, but eventually it will swing back.
Nothing good can happen as long as our politics are under the control of secret courts, and people forced to cooperate must remain silent. Even congressmen can't tell us what is happening.
Truth commissions, our only way out.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
"The public now has to think about the fact that anybody in public life, or person in a position of influence in government, business or bureaucracy, now is thinking about what the NSA knows about them. So how can we trust that the decisions that they make are objective and that they aren't changing the decisions that they make to protect their career? That strikes at any system of representative government."Yes, I've said the same thing here a few times. How else to explain Diane Feinstein's life for the last few years? How else to explain how "the will of the people" is regularly ignored?
So what do we see as we look around. Universities starve the classrooms as they jack up rates to pay for treadmills. Treadmills. When I took a sabbatical from work to earn a bachelor's degree, I walked the mile from my apartment to my classes, a couple of times a day. Was never healthier. Medicine is ruined in USA, since we no longer have mutual aid societies providing medicine, the way we excelled. Labor is the handmaiden of the state, and often, the state. Housing is now Soviet in all respects. Food has gone Frankenstein, people dress like children. The law introduces chaos wherever it is consulted. And the religions are calling for human sacrifice, in a Mayan resurgence - the right wing for people to die in war, the left wing for kids to die, but in both instances under the Mayan ethic that others must die so life can better for the rest of us.
But there are signs of hope. The big, bad Catholic Church has a Pope who is talking to atheists and telling Catholics to get on with it, don't look for leadership from sold out bureaucracy. Some kids are eating pork fat and salt and finding health improves. Medical tourism and "cash only" doctors are allowing some improvement in "health care." Scholars are branding themselves instead of allying with the Medallion Universities. Tailors are finding work. The unions look desolate, but perhaps an independent trade union movement will re-emerge. The pendulum continues toward insanity in housing, but eventually it will swing back.
Nothing good can happen as long as our politics are under the control of secret courts, and people forced to cooperate must remain silent. Even congressmen can't tell us what is happening.
Truth commissions, our only way out.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
3 comments:
Are there any countries or places that do not have an FDA that are succeeding?
I suppose the question is tangentially related to the post, but I take your question to imply the FDA is a success and that all other countries with a version of the FDA are similarly successful. Search this blog for FDA and read my critiques of the agency. You'll see I do not share the premise that it is successful. Is every other entity with an FDA as disastrous as USA? Then yes, I'd agree.
it is for the FDA and its supporters to make the case it is successful at what it is paid to do. And that the alternative will not work. All I can argue is that the alternative, no FDA, works when it comes to health and safety.
The FDA is yet another example of a huge ineffective solution to a tiny problem.
I realize that the FDA is not a success. The FDA is a hindrance to medical innovation.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thisisinsane/2011/07/27/abolish-the-fda-its-insane/
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