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Adrian Gaty's avatar

It’s so true! The way I digested this info was by invoking Dickens. His insane villain Miss Havisham - a bitter spinster deliberately poisoning the younger generation - seemed in Dickens’ day to be a cartoonish, unbelievable exaggeration of villainy; today, it seems totally normal! Havishams are now everywhere, more here:

https://gaty.substack.com/p/miss-havisham-modern-hero

Another fascinating aspect of this, to me, is the power of pharmaceuticals. When 25-30-40% of a demographic is on psych meds, is this the real life version of Marx’s “opiate of the masses” remark, or of Huxley’s soma? That is, if it weren’t for these drugs numbing a quarter of the population to the insanity of modern life, would people be more willing to revolt (and stop voting for the same people all the time)?

In 19th century, we didn’t have powerful big pharma drugs, so treating millions of women for “hysteria” failed, and they instead had to escape chauvinistic oppression in real life, without drugs, and boom… hysteria disappeared. Had Prozac been around in 1870, would women have the vote today?

More on this in my recent interview here:

https://twitter.com/DrMcFillin/status/1693684641260068976

Thank you for this great topic!

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Patricia J.'s avatar

Politicians have always tried to manipulate voters, but the Dems of today have really perfected the art. On one hand, they teach the youth that mass extinction is right around the corner, and simultaneously, only they can and will keep you safe. So for the vulnerable, it's toxic, and you get the post-teen political disorder that closely resembles the pre-teen hysterias.

Didn't Woody Allen say all neurosis is fear of death? So far I don't know one young person TDS sufferer who can answer me when I ask, what do you think of the Abraham Accords? So it's not policy, it's emotion, and yes it's purposeful.

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