Oh yes, another day filled with tragedies, whether from a gunshot wound ten years ago or a motor crash last week we are exposed to the long term care effects of disease or trauma, all of it a sad journey into the morbid human condition. I took care of a huge ton of a man paralyzed from the neck down ten years ago after being shot in the neck. The news today rarely talks about the GSW survivors and what becomes of them. So many people end up paralyzed today because of this type of injury. It happens way more often than people probably realize. Horrible way to live - connected to a ventilator through a trache inserted in your neck, constant suctioning required to keep your secretions from building up, tubes inserted in your genitals, sores festering on your pressure points, the fecade smells and odors that whiff from your diaphoretic skin, all of it caused by the marriage of modern medicine and human violence. A murderous mix of fury and torture. It's days like this I hate my job. I try not to think of the advances in curing paralysis that would've surely been realized by now if we'd spent the money that we have so far spent in killing brown people in far away lands. We appropriate 1/1000th of the money spent on designing new weapons as we do on medical research. Another example of our nations priorities.
So while I keep this man's body alive festering from lack of use, the politicians play their party games and spend tax dollars into a oblivion of violence and corruption. Jesus only knows when it will end. If there even is a Jesus. Congress looks to pass some healthcare reform, but what most people probably fail to realize is if it even manages to get all the way to the presidents desk the reform won't be implemented 100% until 2013. It's not singled tiered so it's not very encouraging to me anyway. Won't really matter either as peak oil and all of its ramifications will be felt long before then.
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u'll see.
So while I keep this man's body alive festering from lack of use, the politicians play their party games and spend tax dollars into a oblivion of violence and corruption. Jesus only knows when it will end. If there even is a Jesus. Congress looks to pass some healthcare reform, but what most people probably fail to realize is if it even manages to get all the way to the presidents desk the reform won't be implemented 100% until 2013. It's not singled tiered so it's not very encouraging to me anyway. Won't really matter either as peak oil and all of its ramifications will be felt long before then.
Yo
u'll see.
Hi! I found your blog by pure coincidence and this article touched me very much, because for once there is someone who dares to look at what most people don't wanna look at!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I know the feeling! And many of these people should never have survived, because this is like you write: torture, nothing but torture!
Looking at you blog, here are two of my posts which should have your interest, since you seem to be concerned about similar things:
http://ahealthierwayofliving.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-we-really-dont-want-to-look-at.html
(this post goes pretty much hand in hand with what you are writing above!)
and on a more political note:
http://goodknowto.blogspot.com/2009/11/on-subject-of-oil.html
Even though oil may appear to be what it's all about, it's actually worse than that...
If you do have time to visit, you would appreciate your thoughts on these two posts and anything else you are interested in!
greetings from Scandinavia, Sarah Sofia
Thanks Sarah, I'm following your blog. Good stuff. Most of blog, so far, has delved into various things other than PO, but I moderate the most active forum for PO lifeaftertheoilcrash.com in the world, and PO - short of many other potential disasters, will change everything and of course kill billions. I'm going to read through your blog as we DO share many ideas.
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