MJ: The social dependency on prescription drugs will take an "attitude adjustment" by the American people. Sadly, most people believe, or want to believe there is a quick fix to everything.
You can obviously speak well and critically about debate styles, charisma and character. You can no doubt peg someone as either phoney, ill-informed, afraid, etc, etc, etc. You have a discerning mind.
CNN had a couple dozen undecided registered voters in a nice cozy hall at a university in Florida, and everyone there sat around watching the debate. They went there live immediately after the debate, and interviewed folks to see if they had decided.
One nice elderly lady was asked if she had decided, and why. She said she had decided to go with Gore, because his closing remarks told her he really cared about Seniors and health care.
I was so, so disappointed in this nice, old lady. She listened to Gore's words, but failed to recognize that his body language indicated he didn't mean what he was saying at all.
Again, left-wing thinking permeates even how Americans perceive the world around them and their own social condition. Left-wing sociology is subltle, but damaging just the same.
Seniors are so gullible. They want to live forever, but they are tired of living. They want to be young, but they would never go back to being twenty. They want to believe that drugs will help them, when in fact, the conditions they suffer from are because of pesticides and pollutants in the foods they eat and the water they drink.
Money is the only universal language that makes American society go round (and pretty-much any modern society). The pollutants in our food chain that are killing us are because farmers and producers are all wanting a "quick fix" for the troubles that ail them, too. Disease in crops, disease in animals, pests, weather. Every farmer or producer uses the easiest solution, and the most cost-effective solution, to produce what looks like a good product. (Looks can be deceiving.) Money talks. But human suffering has a price beyond money.
Farmers use pesticides to kill weeds and insects because they are too lazy to go cut the weeds down and would be hard-pressed to control an insect infestation by hand - some infestations can occur in a matter of 36 hours. It is easier to go out and pump out pound after pound of chemical onto the plants and onto the soil.
Farmers overuse penicillin and hormones because it gets the animals to market faster and better looking (again, looks can be deceiving).
(If you think I am critical of farmers, I was born and raised on a farm. I was the only one who would wander around, wacking weeds down by hand. My father would rather fiddle with his CB than cut weeds down. Even though I am urbanized, still to this day, when I see a noxious weed standing tall by a garbage bin, I go over and pull it out.)
Traditional medicine wants everyone to believe that they have a fix for everything. Just as Bush envisions a renewed culture for Americans, it is going to take the input and attention of every warm-blooded American for this to happen.
Bush can wish a healthy, happy, well-adjusted society on the American people, but it is THEY who must begin to take personal responsibility for their own lives, for their own health, for educating themselves with books instead of "Gerry Springer".
Whew.
With all due respect (Canadian society suffers the same malaise),
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