Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
GED/HEO
12-28-21
I’m sitting here in my living room nursing some sore muscles with a hot water
bottle and thought I’d check the news as there’s news reports about 4pm. I don’t
normally get my news from these sources as it’s too depressing. I already heard
about the mass shooting in Denver and the child shot by the cop in a changing
room in a store. He shot and killed an unarmed guy threatening and hitting people
and the bullet either went through the guy or he fired more than once and it
went through a wall hitting the child. This is bad enough but the worst thing about
US TV is the constant ads that are relentless. It’s hard to escape them because
corporate news stations, while in competition with each other work in unison to
get ads on at the same time so the viewer can’t easily change channels and get
relief.
I hit one channel, ABC, just as an ad came on so I switched
to CBS and an ad was in process there. I thought for a second it was a food ad,
why we should eat more vegetables or something along these lines. There was an
image of a bent carrot and there was a website Bentcarrot.com After I started
writing this I went to Bentcarrot.com and here is the ad I saw.
Within second I find that the ad is about a drug that can
cure your bent penis. There are many disease in the US that the sickness Industrial
Complex cooks up and apparently there’s a penis disease called Peyronie’s disease
and, you got it, the pharmaceutical industry has a cure for it. We can ad this
to the myriad of syndromes we have like restless leg syndrome, excessive baldness
syndrome, and numerous other diseases, syndromes and illnesses. These ads
always tell you to “ask your doctor about…..”.
I had a retired doctor friend who told me she had a patient come in
complaining about a disease she’d never heard of, the patient said she heard
about it on TV.
I switched back and forth a bit and between the reports on
the weather, the snow, the COVID the murders and more and learned that I should
be aware of many more ailments that I should be concerned about. Medical devices
I can buy that can tell me if I’m ill or going to have a heart attack. Johnson
and Johnson had good advice for me and World
of Well, plus I was reminded how powerful Tylenol is for my join pain.
The US health care industry is the most costly in the world
and US workers get the worst bang for the buck of all the advanced capitalist countries.
U.S.
health care spending grew 9.7 percent in 2020, reaching $4.1 trillion or $12,530
per person. As a share of the nation's Gross Domestic Product, health
spending accounted for 19.7 percent.
If you come from Europe to the US you will notice that
prescription drugs are advertised on television, something that is illegal in
most countries. The US population far from the freest, are the most exploited
and ripped of in the industrial world. We have the lowest expectations as well
The ads can be so pervasive one trying to watch a movie will
be driven to bed by the constant interruption and at a time when the next clip
is of importance to the viewer revealing the culprit, cause or ending of the mystery.
It is overwhelming and insulting. One can tell the demographic of the audience
simply by the ads on the screen. Older people get all the drug ones and ones
about devices that can help us live a better life, from walk in baths to drugs that
can give erections lasting four hours.
Naturally, all the legal bases are covered, lawyers as well
as doctors are present throughout this war on the general population a war that
is far more threatening than Hezbollah and they warn us of all the bad things the drug can cause and they always include death, very rare though. This war contributes to the collective psychological maladies that afflict the entire
population. It is this psychological warfare, the obsession with the sale of
the commodity, any commodity, that the US population needs rescuing from.
In a post I put on Facebook today a right wing apologist for
capital went on about how socialism is bad, doesn’t work (he gives Stalinism as
evidence as he does not know what socialism or communism is) and how great
capitalism is because it does work. The Stalinist regime in China is against
billionaires he say “because
they support freedom.”
Freedom indeed. Having a bent penis is no big deal, we have, the drug that can straighten
things out. This is evidence of how free we are, maybe Francis Fukuyama was right; this is the height of civilization.
A person living in the richest country in the world can’t get decent health
care, can’t even get their carrot straightened if they can’t pay for it and the
parasite Elon Musk has 30,000 satellites floating around the planet. This is the best we get.
Something's tragically wrong here.
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