Are we too dependant on medicin today? Yes.

[sapphi_snake]

chocoloco said:

sapphi_snake said:

chocoloco said:

sapphi_snake said:
By chance, has anyone here read Brave New World? I don't understand why people are so surprised than in a capitalist society health has become an industry to be exploited by pharmaceutical companies.

You find me some soma and I want it now. Yes, I read the book.

 

At least it is not required by law to take drugs/soma.

""By his heretical views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life, by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, 'even as a little infant,'" (here the Director made the sign of the T), "he has proved himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself. For this reason I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in

"And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."

These words remind me of socities over use of antidepressant pills witch are consumed by so many without any real evidence they work and without any knowledge of what long term effects they have on peoples brain functioning.

What's worse is that by doing this people don't actually try to fix their problems.

ertainly there is no drug that works like soma, but looking at drug use as a whole it is very similar. It is hard to say though if drugs are the only thing you try than your not trying anything. It is good when some people try things like better diets and exercise.

If the drugs just make your symptoms go away, rather than treating the cause (for example making you high when you're sad because of person troubles), then you're not doing anything serious to fix your troubles.