Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Food For Thought

As we watch thousands of our youth riot, vandalize, burn buildings and beat up strangers with an ideological excuse I can’t help but wonder how many of them took psychoactive drugs as children. Psychiatrists invent syndromes while Big Pharma produces drugs for them. Often it is hard to distinguish between what came first, the drug or the syndrome? But with the social work and education establishment behind them we drugged a generation with damage to their brains only to be documented at some future date. Has that date come?

Most of the crazed mass shooters of the past several years were on psychoactive drugs. However here we are dealing with large numbers of people not unbalanced enough to act that crazy on their own. But with exploitative leadership and a seductive ideology did the drug damage become the key recruitment factor? I don’t know and I can’t prove it one way or the other. But I can’t stop thinking about it either.

Another thought food is Native American sovereignty. Years ago I read that Native Americans wanted to establish an international banking haven (think Grad Cayman Islands, Bermuda, etc) in North Dakota.  It’s always strange when you read about something that seems important and then never hear about it again.  Was the article fake news or was the story suppressed?  I don’t know the details of Native American sovereignty, but if it was legal or not it just wasn’t going to happen. Were casinos the pay off in a deal?

Many of you may be aware of Occidental College due to its former students such as Jack Kemp and Barack Obama. I attended several evening events there when I lived in LA. They always started at 8:05 pm because at one time a noisy train rambled nearby at 8 pm. But after the railroad ceased the decision makers decided to keep the 8:05 start time. They felt that tradition, in and of itself, had value. Current events have caused me to think a lot about their attitude.

Copyright 2020, Mark L. Bennett

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