Why incurable illnesses? Orthodox medicine is a war medicine just as the economy is a war economy: War is omnipresent when man is responsable for social-political affairs.
Cut legs to prevent wheelchair manufacturers from being redundant?
A joke? Not really. In war, human life is at the level of objects: illnesses are weapons of war.
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Why Illnesses
The basic idea of patriarchy is that man, to be a man, must cause some kind of damage: kill, destroy.
To do this, he has to lower human life to the level of an object. If, in fact, the person to be harmed were perceived as a living being, like another himself, the man would be retained by a phenomenon of identification. He would feel like he was hurting himself and therefore wouldn’t go any further.
The reduction of human beings to objects began a long time ago. Literature is always in the foreground and has the privilege of saying things as they are because it escapes censorship on the pretext that it is only “literature”.
Yet, literature describes such a phenomenon in detail. Let us take for example a famous author of the 17th century as Molière with all his plays against doctors :”The doctor in spite of himself“, “The flying doctor“, “love is the doctor“, “the doctor in spite of himself“.
The reduction of the human to an object, also called cosification, is reaching its climax today: it is so internalized that it is almost taken for granted. Except to complain about its consequences: the increasing number of chronic diseases.
Actually, diseases become chronic simply because we refuse to understand the causes. The main one being that we look at ourselves as if we were machines and act accordingly.
Due to our refusal to see their true causes, we cannot successfully treat “chronic” diseases and make them go away. So we make them chronic.
Let’s observe the way we behave with our body.
Illnesses and the Way we Treat our Body
If we look closely at how we treat our body from a medical point of view, we will find that we are handling it as if it were a machine.
When we feel pain somewhere in our body, we rush to our GP to intervene on the precise point and eliminate the disturbance.
When our car breaks down, we entrust it to the “automobile specialist”, the automobile doctor: the mechanic, to have it repaired. he will work on the precise point indicated. It goes without saying, that he does it without worrying about the causes. he simply focuses on the result: cause and effect are one: are the same thing.
When I first met a renowned doctor who, thanks to the new medical branch he created himself, had treated two American presidents with great success, his first question was: “What disease are you here for?” My answer was: “None”. His comment was: “You are intelligent”. And he continued: “People care more about their car – they wash it, they polish it – than about their body: they do nothing for their body.”
He was indeed right: people do a lot for the maintenance of the machines they own, they do almost nothing for the “maintenance” of their own body.
It seems as if we wanted to forget life, to forget our body, which is actually ourselves. We live, our attention focused on that which is inanimate while we represent the highest animate beings. How come?
Different types of Illnesses and Only One Ineffective Answer: Orthodox Medicine.
Everything makes us forget life and focus on what is dead: the mechanic and the machines. Medicine is a true mirror of it.
Orthodox medicine is war medicine. Surgery, for example, is extremely advanced. Yet, surgery is more useful in wartime, when fighters return from the battlefield with severe injuries that need prompt intervention.
The warrior mentality is an integral part of medicine, not only in its applications, also in its deep structure. So, its rock base is antibiotics. Their function is to kill bacteria. Antibiotics are welcome when we are in dire need of a radical remedy, having missed adequate prevention or effective treatment at an early stage of the disease.
Antibiotics are certainly not welcome in everyday life. It’s like using a bomb to start a fire. As a matter of fact, antibiotics are everywhere and even in food. A very bad habit is giving animals large doses of antibiotics to prevent disease.
And these antibiotics are finally part of our body while we are not sick: just because we consume food of animal origin.
What are the unfortunate consequences?
It happens that when we are really sick: when we urgently need the antibiotic “killer” action, it will no longer work due to the resistance developed by overconsumption. “Some germs that were once very responsive to antibiotics have become more and more resistant”https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/antibiotic-overuse.html.
What are the Disadvantages of Orthodox Medicine?
Nobody denies the advantages of orthodox medicine: its main flaw is its intolerance, the fact that it does not allow radical critics. The pretense of deciding for everyone and not allowing third party criticism is deplorable. Above all, not to be subject to the same rules and laws as any other branch of medicine, of science in general: efficiency. After all, the refusal to be judged by the same criteria that it dictates to everyone comes down to: “Do what I say is not what I do“.
For example, when doctors and the general public ring the alarm bell about overuse of antibiotics, it will be received as if it were a claim not to use antibiotics at all.
To disrupt public focus: To prevent a real analysis of what has been said, attention is drawn to the benefits of antibiotics by listing the lives they save and accusing opponents of being backward. This is the common approach to controversial issues in orthodox medicine.
Instead of seriously considering the objections raised. Those who feel concerned: Proponents of orthodox medicine who cannot make a valid argument, simply draw the attention of all listeners to the 10% of the useful aspects of something, while the opponents pinpoint the remaining 90% of the dommage.
All mass media are in the hands of conventional medicine because the official political authority supports it. As soon as the attention is shifted from the negative to the positive aspects of something, anyone who criticizes it will no longer be perceived as a whistleblower, but as a joy killer.
Inevitable Epidemics?
This happens, of course, especially when the objection raised concerns very broad interests. This is the case, for example, when attention is focused on the risks of smartphones, computers and all electronic devices.
The danger, needless to say, comes from their abuse, not from their ordinary use. So where’s the problem? The problem begins when the “warlords” demand no limits on the use of electronic devices.
They are ready to reverse logic and go beyond common sense. Let’s refer to a very simple example from everyday experience. It’s pretty obvious that if I use a small amount of mosquito repellent, the mosquitoes will die while I survive. If, however, I use a million times that amount, I won’t just kill mosquitoes, I will most likely die too.
As with this simple example, the same goes for anything that goes against the mainstream. As everyone knows, using mosquito repellants is safe: only mosquitoes die and you will survive. What is completely overlooked, and done on purpose, is the exaggeration. Today, we see exaggeration everywhere. And this is taken into account only by the victims of such exaggeration, whom they most often hide the true origin of their diseases behind a medial agitation. Why all that?
What is Behind the Inexplicable? Orthodox Medicine Examples.
The mental structure behind it is a war mentality: what kills is worthy, what is soft and gentle is not. And yet, alternative medicine is also called: integrative medicine, holistic medicine, in short: “soft” medicine.
As mentioned earlier, the basic idea of patriarchy is that in order to be a man, the man must do some kind of harm: kill, destroy … only that is an act of value that deserves the attention of the authorities.
A serious consequence is that when someone comes up with a brilliant solution: very soft and gentle, which when applied solves a big problem, is automatically rejected because it is not serious enough. It does no harm, cannot be included in standard actions, and deserves therefore no attention. It looks marginal: not essential.
It happened exactly that way with Ignaz Philip Semmelweis – and this is just one example. He is the pioneer of antiseptic measures (19th century). We know how in the past so many mothers died after giving birth because they were affected by postpartum fever – puerperal fever. Having found that by washing hands in chlorinated lime water before surgery, death rates were greatly reduced, Dr Semmelweis proposed, to avoid the infection causing the death of so many mothers, that doctors simply wash their hands with an antiseptic before approaching a new patient.
He was mocked by his peers even though the facts showed that mortality fell below 1% by following his recommendations.
The medical establishment – mainstream medicine – complained that he did not provide enough evidence of the causal link between hand washing and the decrease in mortality. Eventually he was interned in a mental hospital.
This, far from being an example of 19th century scientific obscurantism, is more relevant today than ever. With the aggravation that the refusal of effective solutions: simple and holistic, is extended to all areas. Intolerance and the absence of factual confrontation are the rule, hence the accumulation of apparently insoluble problems, which are in reality far too easy to solve and therefore not taken into consideration.
In other words, there is a large number of similar cases in the history of science – and not just science – medicine being only one branch. The latter, for example, pays little or no attention to preventive measures.
Treating illnesses: Patriarchal Attitudes Against Alternative Medicine.
Prevention becomes respectable: is taken seriously only if it is aggressive. Take vaccines for example. It doesn’t seem important to anyone that vaccines often cause disease by simply inoculating the substance that is supposed to prevent it.
What about unorthodox medicine? “Alternative medicine” has never really been taken seriously, “who cares” seems to be the official approach: “get lost please”, “we have something more serious to deal with “.
This attitude is the same that the man has towards the woman when she wishes to intervene where the man wants to be the only sovereign: “Shut up, please. We know we can count on you when we only need you. Not now, because now we have something more serious to do: something complicated that you are unable to do. See you later. “
“Alternative medicine” is the official name. This branch, as mentioned earlier, is also known as “complementary medicine”.
Having noticed the parallel between the way patriarchy looks at women and the way it looks at alternative medicine, one can wonder about the reasons for choosing this name: “Alternative”. It comes from the Latin “alter”, which means “other“. In fact the woman is the first OTHER in the eyes of the man.
“She” is useful: complementary, and not essential. The comparison may seem risky, in reality, if we look closely, we see that it is exactly the same attitude that the patriarchal man has towards so-called alternative medicine. Welcome if we need it, otherwise it should go away, in no case should it claim to take precedence over orthodox medicine. Let it wait for someone to call it.
What about the name “orthodox medicine”? “Orthodox“, from Greek, means “right”. We therefore have the “good” medicine: created by man, and we have “complementary medicine”, having a role similar to that of women facing men.
We must not forget that what is good and what is not, was established in a patriarchal framework. Its main actor, the hero is the warrior, its objective: to fight, to kill and to destroy. It is no wonder that in such a context, only what is aggressive is welcome..
Alternative Medicine is more Radical than “Orthodox” Medicine.
In short, what women and men, whose right brain hemisphere is sufficiently developed to be creative, could offer is never considered absolutely essential.
Is such an arrogant attitude justified by facts? More than 43 million people report damage from poor quality medical care each year, according to the 2013 Harvard School of Public Health. 1 With alternative medicine, of course nothing like it.
Alternative medicine is spreading without the formal approval of doctors.
Hans Ruesch, a prominent Swiss figure who became world famous for his campaign against vivisection, says the pharma industry is as big and powerful as the arms industry. 2
With the difference, he adds, that the war ends, the disease do not as long as there is someone who keeps it alive.
This is why chronic diseases are chronic. These diseases are what we also call, to use an ironic understatement, “the diseases of civilization“. Such a designation implies that they are inevitable if we are only to maintain our civilization.
In fact, most of the so-called diseases of civilization are even preventable: if only the woman spirit could step in and run the business. Alternative medicine makes wheelchair patients walk. In fact, alternative medicine is more radical than orthodox medicine: it eliminates diseases while orthodoxy, if anything, only temporarily eliminates symptoms.
21st century Feminism and new Medicine.
Putting it very concisely, the most important is that alternative medicine prevents people in a large number of cases from needing a wheelchair. How? Going a natural way, a peaceful, a woman’s way, not a war-way that consists of amputating legs once gangrene has been allowed to develop.
If real women had the possibility of being what they are naturally, beyond patriarchal deformations, diseases today considered incurable would disappear. Why? Simply because the values that medicine would carry would be the values of life. and not death, which is the case now. 21st Century Feminism supports such an agenda and calls for competition and comparison of results rather than authoritarian, one-sided and unfounded decisions.
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- 2013 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/millions-harmed-each-year-from-unsafe-medical-care/
- https://books.google.fr/books?id=z2eQDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT268&lpg=PT268&dq=Hans+ruesch+pharma+industry+is+as+big+and+powerful+as+the+arm+industry&source=bl&ots=kQT8M7WFjl&sig=ACfU3U0_ZL1qUfOJUsT6M8R0Ozet8oLwsQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMrYzmqurvAhU9A2MBHbBSBxoQ6AEwAHoECAEQAw#v=onepage&q=Hans%20ruesch%20pharma%20industry%20is%20as%20big%20and%20powerful%20as%20the%20arm%20industry&f=false.
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