Americans are Scared Stiff!
The Medical and pharmaceutical industries have finally succeeded in scaring Americans stiff! How profitable for them! Once, the most up and coming industrial nation, we are now a frightened, well-padded, nation of consumers. We consume everything we see and we're fat - go figure?
Have you noticed that doctors and pharmaceutical professionals only remind us mere mortals that they are "only human" when they cause someone serious injury or death? Doesn't that seem just a tad strange, since they are the same folks who adopted the term "non-compliant" to label people who choose not to follow their advice?
Do you realize what non-compliant means? It means: The failure or refusal to comply: the failure or refusal to conform and adapt one's actions to a rule or to necessity.
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10159
The presumption here is not ambiguous. It is frighteningly clear that the medical community believes itself infallible. When they encounter free will, they label it non-compliance and can take whatever steps they deem necessary to enforce their will - at times, with the government's backing.
This being the case, how are these two groups able to defend themselves in malpractice lawsuits? How are they able to claim fallible human status when it suits them, but absolute authority at all other times?
Answer: Because we let them!
Americans are going to have to develop a better attitude toward their physical and mental well- being. To allow any group of people to take this kind of power away from the people is bizarre and not at all in line with a nation that prides itself on democracy and freedom.
What does democracy mean?
"... The principles of democracy emphasize the importance of the individual in the context of government. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
What does freedom mean?
"Simply put, freedom is the absence of government coercion. Our Founding Fathers understood this, and created the least coercive government in the history of the world. The Constitution established a very limited, decentralized government to provide national defense and little else. States, not the federal government, were charged with protecting individuals against criminal force and fraud. For the first time, a government was created solely to protect the rights, liberties, and property of its citizens. Any government coercion beyond that necessary to secure those rights was forbidden, both through the Bill of Rights and the doctrine of strictly enumerated powers. This reflected the founders’ belief that democratic government could be as tyrannical as any King." http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst020705.htm
In our country today, the government requires that we attribute individual beliefs, if they are contrary to a medical professionals opinion, to a religious belief, in order to avoid use of force, by our government, to gain our compliance. It is not enough, anymore, for an individual to make an independent decision and have the same protection from the government that the medical profession enjoys.
This is the case in refusal to permit blood transfusions for our children...though we know that the blood offered is sometimes rejected (resulting in death), or contaminated (potentially causing serious illness and/or death). We are not permitted to end our own lives when we see fit (if we attempt and fail, we can be charged with a crime and imprisoned). We cannot refuse medication if we are deemed to suffer certain illnesses, even though the drugs prescribed have been shown to reduce the quality of life significantly, if not result in suicide, or death.
It is through sheer laziness of body, mind and spirit that we find ourselves governed by the medical and pharmaceutical industries. Americans are fat and sickly because we, collectively, attempted to shirk our personal responsibilities. Through our own refusal to think for ourselves and defend one another's right to do the same, we find ourselves clinging to our medicine cabinets for dear life; convinced, and berating others to be the same, that someone, anyone, else knows better than we do what is right and good for us.
Everyone knows that the human body is a marvel. We know that no one in any profession, regardless of "expert" status, has ever created one. We know that the body has functions that are directly affected by physical inactivity and use of drugs. It is time for our nation to adopt the belief that one's decisions concerning their own bodies are protected individual rights. It's time to put a stop to those who seek to take away our most personal freedoms to suit their ideas of good and proper health.
It has never been required that a majority of people agree with anyone's decisions regarding their personal health, or lack thereof, until now. People with sheep-like mentality have been used and manipulated by the medical and pharmaceutical industries to do nothing more than make them more money and us more ill. Even sheep must get tired of following, though, because at least one got away in NY the other day, when he was just that close to the slaughter!
Here are the real steps to wellness:
Get up today. Go outside and do something. Any activity will make you feel better than none. Do your own research and demand the right to form your own conclusions. Refuse to support any more laws that would give more latitude to these industries over your personal health decisions.
The major leap toward real wellness of mind, body and spirit, is refusing to believe, without question, those who would convince you that your body is too complex a machine for you to operate unsupervised. If it were truly so, we wouldn't even be here on earth.
Use the medical professionals when you need them, stop allowing them to use our government to impose their will on all of us!
