ADHD and the Pharmaceutical cartel
There’s a system that profits off of other people’s perceived dysfunctions. Once you understand this, you have a choice: do I allow myself to be a profitable statistic or do I take advantage of this system. If the disease is an invention, then we have enormous power to define the terms of the pathology. Get the drug, sell it, use it, better, get a job for Pfizer.
Nicky
Nicky
posted by emily Evans at 8:58 PM
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The early 18th century saw the introduction of visual parlour entertainment-- glass mechanical slideshows operated by projecting a glass slide on a wall, the pre-curser to the television. Subjects of general interest depicted on the glass panels included the American Civil War, the French Indian war, and more narrative moving pictures like a little boy throwing a snow ball at an old man, juvenile disrespect of the lesser-abled was funny even hundreds of years ago. Our set up isn’t so different. We download real TV AVI files of cheese wagons racing over speed bumps, sending schoolchildren soaring out of their unbelted seats, an old woman holding a dog leash and being lifted into the air by a St. Bernard chasing a wayward Frisbee, a young guy with a bad song and a synthesizer trying to become the next Justin Temberlake or Joey Joe MacIntyre or Donny Osborne. Nicky said shit, moving the pointer over the date of the last post, Aug 21, 2001, he added, “It’s weird how these discussion threads are preserved now, how communication can be excavated from the Internet. Jenny, you want to be a poet, why don’t you have a website? Do you even know what other Jennifer Martins come up on a Google?” He googled Jennifer Martin, and I sat there feeling flummoxed by the paternal tone he was using on me. “Let’s see… you share your name with … a big Christian country rock star, a soccer prodigy who plays NC-double-A for the Baylor Bears, a Professor Martin who’s an Associate Professor of Law at Western New England College… but it looks like you’re going to have to do something pretty controversial to come up before that Christian rocker, look at this, she’s got like eight out of ten on the first page of the search. Let’s see… any poets?” He Googled Jennifer Martin poet, and came up with a woman with a collection of haikus, as well as several hits for her on Amazon and online zines. “Jenny, if you’re serious about this writing thing you should get your stuff out there, (he nodded at the screen) forget these goddamned publishers and editors. They just make you doubt yourself, and feel like a criminal with icily phrased rejection letters for aspiring to be a member of the print text literati. The net’s the only place to be, if you’re not online these days, you’re hardly a real person.”
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