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Re: Dysphoria = Verstimmung ... [Bio-Imperialism]
« on: September 15, 2020, 09:43:01 am »
I am almost hesitant to follow the trail I happened by on these Interwebs since the source is from what might be classified as "an enemy camp" hostile to the themes held dear by at least one of our main contributors. 

So, up front I will state that the following came from an avowed atheistic feminist, Kelly Brogan, MD in Spirituality and Mental Illness.

Quote from: Kelly Brogan
The American Way

Sure, I know some people who feel and live this way too. But my country doesn’t know me and it certainly doesn’t know spirituality. And my country is commandeering the consciousness of traditional people throughout the world.

Predicated on the belief that technology and science are the objective bottom line of truth, American religions adhere to this split between the material and the spiritual, allowing the material (aka the body and the planet) to be controlled by the dominant corporate forces without consideration.

She seems to put a great deal of faith in the "spirituality" of the people in Holden's neck of the woods.  She would not be the first.  My "spiritual great, great grandfather," Arthur Schopenhauer, also paid evident homage to the traditions of our Holden's ancestors.

Please forgive any naivety or romanticism (an outsider's view).  Holden has let us in on the dirty little secrets plaguing Industrialized India, not in the least being the great disparity between the "untouchables" and pariahs versus the obedient gort careerists.

What interests me in this piece is the concept of bio-imperialism.

Quote from: Kelly borgan
Bio-imperialism

And so it’s no wonder that as American fear-based consciousness permeates the globe, so does its mental illness constructs – so that it provides both the sickness and the “treatment.” Headlines are claiming that mental illness in India is on the rise, and awareness generating campaigns to medicate Indians are underway.

Is this a new form of imperialism? Bio-imperialism?

It would make sense that as we enter this darkest hour of the old story, the forces of disconnection would be working to desecrate this most sacred land and its people.

Perhaps that’s why we have polio campaigns in India – an oral polio vaccine deemed too dangerous for the first world – which in 2011 alone was responsible for a documented 47,500 cases of vaccine-induced paralysis. And we have 30,000 Indian girls experimented on with the HPV vaccine thanks to the philanthropic efforts of the Gates Foundation. And then, of course, there’s Monsanto’s efforts to commandeer the agriculture of the nation resulting in the suicide of literally hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers who suffered the choke-hold illegalities of Bt cotton. In India, you cannot patent life. Monsanto doesn’t care.

But Monsanto, Gates, and Pharma are just the ugly heads of a monster we have all co-created. They are the ever growing house whose fireplaces we agreed to tend so that we could have our wish granted.

As I watched the siblings  – who don’t have a sink in their bathroom – on their smart phones gifted by adoring Westerners, I felt the pang of what will be syphoned off from their traditional consciousness and sucked into the vortex of a digital existence.

Perhaps what I am sensing is present in India – this deep fabric of spirituality – is actually in its death throes and I am romanticizing a tragedy. I don’t know. But what I do know is that our struggles as Westerners, particularly those struggling with poverty, are made all the more poignant because we are struggling without this fabric – flesh robots on a dead rock in the middle of nowhere. And everything hurts so much more because of it.

Things They Will Never Tell YouArthur Schopenhauer has been the most radical and defiant of all troublemakers.

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