Posted by Declan on April 23, 2007, at 16:31:57
In reply to Re: Fashions in self destruction? Or what? » Declan, posted by Maxime on April 22, 2007, at 20:05:57
Thankyou Maxie
This was at the end of an article I liked.
"They have figured out how to use the gigantic apparatus of modern medicine to restore our hope: by unburdening us of self-contradiction and uncertainty, by replacing pessimism with 'optimisation', by inventing us as the people who seek Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction, who will buy from the pharmacy what we need to forge ahead with our Well-Being unhindered by Depressive Symptomatology, to pusue antidepression, if not happiness. Who can resist this idea that our unhappiness is a deficiency that is in us but not of us, that it is visited on us by dumb luck, that it can be sent packing with a dab of lubricant applied to a cell membrane."
It hasn't worked with me though (I don't think).
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