Beer or a pill?

If one must keep a psychiatrist, you should keep the one in this video. Now, before you get all excited about why a psychiatrist is on a blog like this - please watch:



Two things should be noted.

First, starting at about 0:42, Dr. Szsaz says that, according to the learned, there are 294 diseases discovered by the psychiatric (read: pill developers) industry in the last 60 years. Dr. Szsaz is a skeptical about this as we all should be. He calls it an 'epidemic of psychiatry.' What a great line. He goes on to say that the entire industry is based upon 'a story, a mythology, a fable.'

Second, starting at about 1:50, Dr. Szsaz makes the brilliant observation that we 'advertise (the pill), but we can not advertise beer.’ Then he asks the critical question; which is more toxic (the pill) or beer? That is the question!!!!

Some years ago, Tom Hodgkinson made a similar observation when he wrote about the obscene profits that the pill industry drags in. Of course their employees, otherwise known as doctors, push these pills for everything. I admonished loved ones to convalesce after an illness or surgery.

Of course, for eight or ten thousand years or until 60 years ago people took a more Epicurean approach to their troubles. That was, as Hodgkinson observes, before our troubles became professionalized, commoditized and industrialized. Back then the cures were good company, good cheer and good beer. That’s correct the best solution was friends, food and drink.

So, open your house, grow vegetables and meat and brew beer because tomorrow…well, tomorrow will have it’s own troubles.

SDG