Our society owes its success to medical advancements. This is also the thing to which it owes its horrible, horrible failure. Despite being the proponent of Darwin that I am, I won't get into a darwinian argument here because I too owe my life to modern medicine. But seriously, if they recomend that everyone take a vitamin supplement, there is something wrong. No one should ever have to take a vitamin supplement.
But my quarrel is mainly with all the ads I see for drugs people think they need. You've got to remember that those are just like any other consumer product - the producer makes you think you need it. Take for example, zoloft. or paxil. or whatever the hell else they have out now. They work, yes, but only for people with real problems. Take a look at the list of symptoms they describe: trouble sleeping, anxiety around groups of people, agitation at others, generally stressed out, the list goes on. But of course we must remember that everyone in America has those symptoms. It's all a scam. They call it the Barnum effect, meaning that if you see something like that, you have a tendency to believe it about yourself. Next up: ADD. or ADHD as they call it now. It's a myth. Back in my day, Ritalin was called a belt. If the fool child is acting up, pop him one time and he'll learn. One last issue: weight loss. Atkins needs revision and Dr. Phil is just a jackass. It's called healthy living, aka not getting so fat in the first place.
There are way too many people taking medications like this. If this society is really so unhealthy, mentally and physically, then pills and fad diets are not the answer. The problem is that no one is willing to take responsibility for their own lives, they all want some magic pill to come save them, or some program where they don't have to do any work. They blame their problems on genetics and on their circumstances, when really they could take some personal initiative to seek better health.
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