On corporate drugs

As biological organisms, we humans can learn a great deal from what we respond to and what we react to and that there are great sources of wisdom to be tapped by going through life un-medicated. My view is that all sorts of emotions and experiences are very, very real — they’re much more real than almost anybody wants to admit and certainly they are more real than much of the establishment and its authorities would like you to recognize. The immediate inclination to medicate pain because the pain is “real” is not at all helpful to psychological development or to mature intellectual perceptiveness. No doubt what I say will be misconstrued as advocating “tough love”, when in fact that is the exact opposite of what I am saying. I’m sure that an implicit binary construct lurks behind the false cultural choices that are represented as either taking the pain relief that is offered to you or going through your pain the old fashioned way. I do not subscribe to either of these perspectives and consider them equally as noxious as each other. Rather, I believe the body is a great source of wisdom and often it is telling us that our systems of social organisation are sick. One does well to heed what the body is trying to tell us, because otherwise we leave a horrible legacy to the next generation to try to adapt to something that is hostile to our humanity.