Friday 19 November 2010

The problem of calling misery and human suffering an illness

Calling the experiences people go through an illness means doctors and
healthcare have to deal with it. People don't have the time to care for
people. They have to work. The wisdom to help people has been lost from
the people. It's more important what they work as slaves in the offices
and call centres and contribute to the GDP of the nation. They get an
hour with a therapist who gives them the acceptance they can't get from
other people or the time to outpor the inner misery. I tmeans seizures
can be used to 'treat' behaviour and all in the name of a compassionate
system impossible to criticise because it's doctors that tell the public
that it really is a genuine illness (had they studies been done they
could 'prove' that homosexuality or slaves who wanted to be free was a
mental illness).

This is the illness in society. In my belief this is how society became
malformed. People wanted cars instead of compassion, or the marketers
and politicians told them they wanted cars because that's what made them
happy.

I am so thankful to David Cameron for keeping Gross Domestic Happiness
and the wellbeing agenda as part of government policy even through the
financial crisis we face. I think this will be a real step forward to a
humane society and a truly advanced one.

Civilisation needs to heal. Our lives and our communities are more
important than our wealth. Our love for each other and our willingness
to help each other is more important than more tanks and bombs.
Harvesting the gold in our hearts is more important than getting more
black gold to fuel the cars and factories that destroy our planet.

Love for our fellow human beings is what will heal the nation, not more
mental health care and calling misery and suffering an illness.

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