It’s Hard To Fathom
How many people’s emotions
Are chemically dependent on
A pharmaceutical behemoth
Industrial corporation complex
That does not give two shits
About anyone’s overall well-being
That are simply contemplating
How to add to their bottom line
In ways to administer drugs with
Just enough poison to sedate
But not enough to quite kill
After all, a dead customer is
A non repeating customer
“I don’t like the drugs, but the drugs like me
I don’t like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs
Norm life, baby
//
You and I are underdosed, and we’re ready to fall
We’re raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
We’re taught to be nothing at all
//
I don’t like the drugs but the drugs like me
I don’t like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs
I don’t like the drugs but the drugs like me
I don’t like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs
Norm life, baby
//
“There’s a hole in our soul that we fill with dope
And we’re feeling fine. “
“There’s a hole in our soul that we fill with dope
And we’re feeling fine. “
“There’s a hole in our soul that we fill with dope
And we’re feeling fine. “
I don’t like the drugs, but the drugs like me
I don’t like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs”
– Marilyn Manson
Cue the TV advertisement……
Never radio. Why??
Because you can not see
The visual cues to trigger
Well crafted head nods and subtle smiles
That subliminally suggest that you, too, can
Be happy as a clam if you can take
A “Doctor” voice recommended dose
To level your lull with lullaby music
As the artificial sun is always shining
Over a fake grass, an extremely clean park
Butterflies flying for no apparent reason
With everyone smiling, staring into the distance
While the voice-over actor repeats
The pharmaceutical poison pill’s name
As it remains permanently on screen
That has more lethal side effects than
Possible cures that you think you “need”
Just call your doctor *…….now
*
“He’s the one they call,”Dr. Feelgood”
He’s the one that makes ya feel all right
He’s the one they call “Dr. Feelgood”
He’s gonna be your Frankenstein
Let him soothe your soul. Just take his hand
(Dr. Feelgood)
Some people call him an evil man
(Dr. Feelgood)
Let him introduce himself real good
(Dr. Feelgood)
He’s the only one they call “Feelgood””
– Motley Crüe
“And by the way, you’re supposed to have anxiety. Did you know that? It’s a human emotion. It’s been around for a couple of million years.
You’re supposed to worry about things. You’re supposed to be concerned that the rent’s not going to get paid,
…………‘cause that’s how the fucking rent gets paid!”
– Christopher Titus
“I Wanna Be Sedated
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do and nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated
Just get me to the airport
Put me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers
I can’t control my brain
Oh no no no no no
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothin’ to do and nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated
Just put me in a wheelchair
Get me on a plane
Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane
I can’t control my fingers
I can’t control my brain
Oh no no no no no
I wanna be sedated
I wanna be sedated
I wanna be sedated
I wanna be sedated”
– Ramones
“I write to expunge the darkness
So that someday
Light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Looking at the world through a windshield. 
This is an essential conversation. Did we go the wrong direction by following Freud? Obsessed with the idea that our childhood sets up the rest of our life and if there is any glitch (which there always is), then we have to “fix” it. Anything not to suffer! But Life is suffering – those are the cues that help us survive. But now, everyone is afraid of any little splinter – drug it up! Just as you say.
How do we get people to call you instead of their doctors?
Why are people more miserable than ever before? Suicides are up nearly 40% over the last 20 years and has been steadily rising over the last 100 years.
Are people unable to comprehend that life is supposed to have ups and downs?
Imagine what’s on the other side of living through bad stuff and surviving? Pretty amazing stuff!!
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With all of the endless side effects of whatever drug is being sold, it is almost if they are doling out placebos / sugar pills for near pure profit, and the audio small print is just a goof to see how many people will take their “soma” even if it might make them shorter, dizzy, smelly, have their nose fall off, bleed from orifices they didn’t know they had. Knowing their “drug” does nothing but make them money. It is a liability win win…….and the consumer wouldn’t even care, because it worked and made them “feel” better.
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It’s called “soma” in Brave New World.
The drug to keep citizens docile, happy, and free from negative emotions, acting as a social control mechanism that replaces religion and traditional pleasures, offering instant bliss but preventing genuine feeling or deep thought. Citizens take it regularly to avoid any hint of unhappiness, making it a core part of their conditioning and the society’s stability.
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That makes me appreciate my internal rage that keeps me aware to make things better, both personally and socially. The thought of being leveled out is enticing, but way to dangerous to even attempt once.
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I appreciate it too! Look at all the good that comes from it. Lucky us!
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Even In The Matrix, Morpheus tells Neo: “You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.” This choice leads back to blissful ignorance within the simulated reality, a life of comfort but illusion, while the red pill reveals the harsh truth of the Matrix.
The conclusion is driven home that one way or another, one must take a “pill” to alter their reality. There was never a presented or perceived option to not take a pill.
Although perhaps in the Matrix, the pill is irrelevant, rather just a visual, as to the choice Neo makes.
Still, my best guess is that between the two options. Most people would want to wake up in bed and believe whatever they want to believe.
Yet, so far, there seems to be no physical harm or psychological threat from any one or any entity in exploring and constantly questioning what I perceive to be “my” reality. Nor does it bring harm to anyone else.
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“There’s always plenty more where
they came from.” ~ Big Bro Pharma
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