I’m Richard Lloyd Jones, and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. From the time we're young, we're taught to protect ourselves from nature. Sprays to keep off the bugs, oils to block the harmful rays, poisonous cleansers to stave off the offending bacteria shacked up in the bathroom.
Nature is a savage place, we're shown on Cable TV documentaries, where malefic killer diseases lurk and there are microbe enemies in pigs and birds.
It’s so common to hear this that we can be forgiven for not questioning the accuracy of this view. You see, it was a scientific coup d’etat back in the early 1900s that launched us on the path to seeing all our health problems as coming from the microbes invading us from nature. That was Pasteur’s proposal, the Germ Theory was born, and the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry led by Rockefeller and Carnegie had found its scientific forefather. And its tool for bludgeoning contradictory perspectives senseless, and within a very short time, medical education and clinical practice was firmly on the path of seeing our problems in germs, and making billions with medications to protect us from them.
Explaining Illness and Epidemics Energetically, today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.
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Paranoia and Societal Control
I'm Richard Lloyd Jones and this is Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.
I've been catching up on some reading lately. That's one of the things that seems to slip through the cracks if I don't take care. All this focus on tweets and Facebook updates seems to have shortened my attention span, so getting into a good book gets harder and harder.
The book I've been biting into is Norberto Keppe's landmark book, The Decay of the American People (and of the United States) - the one that started troubles for Keppe and Co. in America because the powers-that-be didn't get it. They thought Keppe was attacking, but on closer reading you'll see he was keen to help.
"We are not simply writing a book," he says in his prologue, "We are launching the beginning of a campaign of awareness to save the U.S. from total decay."
It had been noteworthy from his first landing in New York in the early 1980s that trouble was brewing. And his book laid out the areas that were in decadence, from economics to industry to agriculture, to psychology and esthetics and religion. It's strong stuff.
And it points a firm finger at the extremely megalomanic people in power who've lost their sense of reality and are leading the decay.
Paranoia and Society Control, today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.
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I've been catching up on some reading lately. That's one of the things that seems to slip through the cracks if I don't take care. All this focus on tweets and Facebook updates seems to have shortened my attention span, so getting into a good book gets harder and harder.
The book I've been biting into is Norberto Keppe's landmark book, The Decay of the American People (and of the United States) - the one that started troubles for Keppe and Co. in America because the powers-that-be didn't get it. They thought Keppe was attacking, but on closer reading you'll see he was keen to help.
"We are not simply writing a book," he says in his prologue, "We are launching the beginning of a campaign of awareness to save the U.S. from total decay."
It had been noteworthy from his first landing in New York in the early 1980s that trouble was brewing. And his book laid out the areas that were in decadence, from economics to industry to agriculture, to psychology and esthetics and religion. It's strong stuff.
And it points a firm finger at the extremely megalomanic people in power who've lost their sense of reality and are leading the decay.
Paranoia and Society Control, today on Thinking with Somebody Else's Head.
Click here to listen to this program.