Monday, July 20, 2015
Film Scoring, Funerals, and the IRS
Sleep is a torment. It is not supposed to be that way, but our modern American medical establishment is capitalizing on it. So is The Food and Drug Administration. I have learned over the years to approach the FDA the same way we approach the IRS. They are a necessary ill. Neither is a pillar of virtue, especially when you consider who in America is paying the bulk of taxes to run the country. The same is true with the medical establishment. It is not constructed to provide medical care for the common man. It is constructed to amass money for its purveyors. Our medical establishment and our FDA are run by pharmaceutical companies. In essence they are like trusts. They have chosen the medical profession upon which to base their money-making business practices. It is of no consequence that this profession philosophically, morally, and ethically exists to aid mankind in ways that are not possibly by non skilled people. Medicine is a kind of art form, but it has yet to strive to create art for the betterment of mankind the way other arts have. That is because there is too much money to be made. When the making of that money is pitted against the humanitarian and altruistic caring for people.... Well you can see the result. The advancement of medicine now is a political issue. As a society we make more money treating symptoms, thus advances in medicine are sacrificed. It is big business, and it is unconscionable. Stories like that of Michigan doctor Dr. Farid Fata who falsely diagnosed his patients with cancer so he could collect millions of dollars from insurance companies for chemotherapy treatments... Well you can see the result. Evil is all around us, and it has encroached at an alarming rate. It seems every aspect of our lives is assaulted with untruth and deception. Read the news on the internet. I once was an avid fan of the World Wide Web. This was before Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler released a plan that would have allowed companies like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon to discriminate online and create pay-to-play fast lanes. Luckily web enthusiasts rallied demanding continued neutrality for free communication on the internet. Mr. Wheeler changed his position from supporting corporate America to supporting the average American. While net neutrality temporarily may have been preserved, all ready it has been corrupted on a massive scale. The selling of advertisement by Google and Facebook to collect revenue has tilted the scales of the internet in the same direction of our medical establishment. Good cannot prevail in a Capitalist economy. It can, but not today. With the disguising of America's history, the undermining of public education, the exploitation of our youth, and the purposeful and manipulative aberration of media America's citizens have become victims. Once citizens were the centerpiece of American politics. Citizens were the core of America's existence. Now we are pawns, and I am getting tired of the fight.