The Poor-Man's Guide to Modernity - Independent Media Center

Nobel laureate physicist Max Planck expressed this holistic fact of system analysis most aptly:
“Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by
dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself, since such a
method often implies the loss of important properties of the system. We must keep our
attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts.” (Cited in
Critique of Western Philosophy and Social Theory By David Sprintzen, pg. 76)
Consequently, in order to acutely comprehend the larger interconnection between parts, one
has to not only understand many parts, but also the historical trends and dynamics in the
interconnection between those parts – as these are neither static, nor temporal, but evidently
bring a long hysteresis effect to their current state and future direction. A former nursing
student Jennifer Lake has compiled an interesting medicine Timeline to this effect, spanning
the period between 1830 to present, where the long-term trends of modern medicine and the
medical establishment's conduct leading us here, is self-evident (see Jennifer Lake's Blog).
But it is of course next to impossible to understand any of this in the limited time dedicated
professionals have available to them after toiling all day long in their 'American Dreams'.
Which brings us back to the busy doctors and their knowledge of their own profession, never
mind of complicated agendas and trends which both transcend their profession as well as is
part of their profession. The modern doctors don't appear to know too much about the
medicines and vaccines they prescribe to their own patients, behaving more and more like
technicians for big-Pharma. This empirical observation is most unfortunate because many
practitioners I am sure, and two of my own children are laboring in that endeavor of the healing
sciences, come to this profession with a great deal of idealism. But what happens by the time
they have graduated medical school and labored 80-100 hours per week in their residencies at
barely livable wage and a quarter of million dollars in debt? They become slaves to the
dogmas of big-Pharma.
Indeed, the modern physician, from pediatrician to internal medicine to oncologist to
psychiatrist, all appear most beholden to whatever is the prevailing cultural dogma of big-
Pharma, to the FDA, to the AMA, to the WHO, and to the sales rep of big-Pharma from whom
they evidently get all their knowledge of the drugs they automatically prescribe like robots
based on a symptom diagnostic table also provided to them by big-Pharma. The choice of
radiology and surgery for this reason appeals to some because these entail the least
interaction with big-Pharma. Some also just walk away. This is what Jennifer Lake wrote on
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