Yeah, I know, I don't come here often, so I missed the fact that my Comments have been spammed. So sorry you have to scroll through Viagra ads to see the pathetic few comments (not that your comments are pathetic: the fact that there're are so few such golden nuggets there is the pathetic part). And I can't seem to figure out how to delete old comments…
While I'm here:
Have you noticed that everything in our Therapeutic Society today is some kind of pathology to be treated? Things that used to be considered just part of the Human Condition are now diagnosed, then prescribed. The afore-mentioned Viagra is an example: almost completely a product targeted at male insecurity. And that insecurity has been given a name: "Erectile dysfunction. What would you say, ninety percent?
And this generation has been taught that what's wrong with them isn't a lack of character, but that they have oppositional defiance disorder (that one brings the biggest chuckle, because my father had a cure for that. He wore it around his waist), or whatever other bona fide borderline personality disorder has been added to the DSM.
I'm not saying there aren't actual problems out there. There have been times when I've been grateful for a kid going back on his ADD meds. But some of this other stuff is suspect. There are an awful lot of pills being pushed out there, and many of them seem to take the place of us having to engage the unpleasant realities around us. I don't need a bottle of Xanax: I need to to through the grieving process of a major loss, get through it, grow through it, an move forward with an emotional strength and maturity that I didn't have before, and maybe a drop of wisdom as well. The pill lets me circumvent that growth. Not good for me.
I'm not a pharmacological Luddite. Most of these drugs have legitimate uses, but when we over-prescribe them just to make life easy, it makes us weak.
