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                 Theme: “Flow”
The American Behavioral Pandemic in the Classroom,
    the Workplace, the Body Politic, the Culture, and
      Private Life, Which the Medical and Psychiatric
  Profession Obstinately REFUSES to Acknowledge...
                        ...and that makes me a bitch?
Pathetic Labels Contrived by Psychiatry to
Conceal the Stark Reality of Consumerism
 “Attention Defi¢it Hypera¢tivity Di$order”
     Or whatever they’re calling it this week
 “Anxiety Di$order” and “Pani¢ Di$order”
 “Bipolar Di$order”
     A diagnosis de jour that demonizes many emotional states
 “¢ondu¢t Di$order”
     Fortunately not recognized in Tennessee…yet
 “Depre$$ion”
     Oftentimes the consequences of anesthetization
 “Ob$e$$ive ¢ompul$ive Di$order”
 “Oppo$itional Defiant Di$order”
     A politically motivated label used against progressives and liberals
 “$¢hizophrenia”
     Cover-up of infant molestation
 Fraudulent genetic claims regarding alcoholism and all other substance abuse
 They haven’t cloned and sequenced a goddamn thing
 And that makes me and nonviolent therapists bitches?

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Chances Are the Same Industrialist
Wrote Both of These Scripts
A petty dictator in the                       Children are accused of
 Middle East is accused of                      having a disease (AD/HD)
 having WMD that do not                         that does not actually exist
 actually exist                                The media buys the lie
The media buys the lie                        The medical profession
The U.S. invades the country,                  invades the children’s bodies
 brazenly defying major                         with drugs, brazenly defying
 worldwide opposition                           major worldwide opposition
Millions of civilians and U.S.                Trillions of neurons die
 soldiers die                                  And that makes me and
And that makes me and                          concerned parents bitches?
 geopolitical pacifists
 bitches?
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Actual Disabilities vs.
Social and Environmental Disasters
Actual Disabilities                          Social Disasters
Well-known before 20th                      Rare or unheard of before
 century                                      20th century
Low incidence (rare)                        High incidence (epidemic)
Manifested in appearance,
                                             Invisible, inaudible, no blood
 speech, blood test,
 optometry, audiology, and/or                 test or brain scan
 brain scan                                  Reversible by remedial
Static                                       education
Irreversible                                Reversible by alternative
Already cloned and                           medicine
 sequenced if genetic                        No clone or sequence
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Actual Disabilities vs.
Social Disasters cont’d
Actual Disabilities                            Social Disasters
 Cystic fibrosis                               Emotional disturbances, e.g.
 Hemophilia                                     “depre$$ion,” “bipolar,” and “$
 “Type I” diabetes                              ¢hizophrenia”
                                                “AD/HD”
 Cerebral palsy
                                                “Type II” diabetes
 Spina bifida
                                                “Auti$m $pe¢trum”
 Down and fragile X
                                                “Learning di$abilities”
 Sensory disabilities
                                                “Language di$orders”
 Speech disorders
                                                “¢ondu¢t di$order”
 Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
                                                Mild retardation
 Neuromuscular disease
                                                AID$
 Sickle cell disease
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Original Intent of Disability
Legislation and Litigation
 To rescue the following from incarceration in “mental hospitals”:
    Intellectually disabled, a.k.a. mentally retarded
    Emotionally disturbed
    Untreated autism spectrum
    Demented
    Sexual minorities
    Undiagnosed deaf
    Undiagnosed speech disorders
 To rescue the following from incarceration in institutions for the mentally retarded:
    Intellectually disabled
    Untreated autism spectrum
    Undiagnosed deaf
    Undiagnosed speech disorders
 To rescue the following from incarceration in nursing homes:
    Physically disabled
    Health impaired
    Demented
    Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

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Original Intent of Disability Legislation
and Litigation, cont’d
Ruling and managerial classes originally fought like dogs
 to stop these bills and lawsuits
Proponents of legislation and litigants never meant to
 ram psychiatric drugs down the throats of tens of millions
 of innocent people; rather, they often sought the
 diametric opposite
Now that the laws exist, they are being abused on a
 massive scale by the power-hungry ruling and managerial
 classes to push psychiatric drugs
   FMLA, originally vehemently opposed by corporations, is
    now also being abused by them on an equally massive scale
    to evade ever having to pay sick leave
And that makes me a bitch?

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Two Pandemics of Brain Damage
Medieval Europe                                                    Industrial U.S.
 Poverty                                                           Chronic noncaloric malnutrition
 Hunger                                                            Family abuse
 Family abuse                                                          Including during pregnancy
     Including during pregnancy                                    Alcohol
 Alcohol                                                           Iatrogenesis (medically induced)
 War                                                                   Somatic
     Crusades and local wars                                                  Interference in childbirth
 Torture                                                                      General anesthesia
     Church and state
                                                                               Prescription drugs
                                                                           Psychiatric
 Violent crime                                                                Drugs
 Equestrian accidents                                                         Shock
 Infectious diseases                                               Pollution
     Bathing more than once a year strictly prohibited                 Air, water, soil, and radiation
             Enforced by Inquisition, pogroms, and Witch Hunts,    Education often reduced to warehousing
              a.k.a. Women’s Holocaust
                                                                        Racism, casteism, and underfunding
        No knowledge of antibiotics
             The modern medical profession’s real claim to fame    Vehicular accidents
                  Discovery had been a complete accident           Other recreational drugs
 Jousting injuries                                                 Sports injuries
 Lack of education                                                 Violent crime
     Education required for optimal brain development



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This progressive term is a much better explanation of these
social and environmental disasters than fad diagnoses,
especially as multiple symptoms often coincide in the same
person, leading to a geometric progression of overlapping fad
labels caused by the same dietary and environmental insults




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Demographics of Consumerism
Consumerism is pandemic among native-born U.S.
 citizens
Crosses gender, racial, and socioeconomic lines
Prevalence and severity inexorably worsening with each
 successive generation of Americans
Virtually unheard of among immigrants, regardless of
 country of origin or generation
Roman Empire had disintegrated under similar
 circumstances, likely because of pandemic lead poisoning
 from the plumbing having been lined with lead
And that makes me a bitch?
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Causes of Consumerism: Media




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Causes: Media, cont’d




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Causes: Media, cont’d
    Violence
      Effect on children incontrovertible
      Advances racist stereotypes and incarceration
      Encourages violence against women
    Modeling of substance use, including the three legal substances and
     performance-enhancing drugs
    Modeling of atrocious eating habits
    Advertising
         The most marketed products are the most dangerous
         Induces addictions on a massive scale
    Pornography and erotica
      Subpornographic erotica as damaging as porn itself
    Abusive and misogynist language
      Rap and heavy metal lyrics
         Labels never sign rappers with a social conscience
      Shock jocks and talk radio

 And that makes me and independent media bitches?

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Causes of Consumerism: Atrocious Diet




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Causes: Diet, cont’d
    Contamination with toxic substances of agribusiness
      Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and algaecides
         These don’t know when to stop killing
         Manufactured from carcinogenic petrochemicals
      Toxic fertilizers
      Excessive antibiotics in filthy factory farms
         Foodborne diseases
         Antibiotic-resistant diseases
            My brother’s best friend’s fiancée died of an antibiotic-resistant disease
      Growth hormones
      Genetically engineered “frankenfoods”
         Epidemic food allergies
      Agribusiness waste disposed of in water supply as “fluoridation”
         Known carcinogen and neurotoxin
            Generates free radicals

    Ironically, the U.S. diet was once the best in the world
 And that makes me and organic farmers bitches?
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Causes of Consumerism:
Environmental and Substance Use
Environmental insults
   Air and water pollution
   Soil contamination
   Lead poisoning from paint chips and lead plumbing
   Environmental racism
        Polluting plants invariably in people-of-color neighborhoods
    Pesticides in schools, workplaces, and institutions
    Radiation exposure, including during pregnancy
    Occupational exposure, including during pregnancy
Substance abuse
   Starts with caffeine
   Caffeine leads to alcohol, tobacco, and all other drugs
And that makes me and environmentalists bitches?

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Causes of Consumerism:
Iatrogenesis (Medically Induced)




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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d




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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d




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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d




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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d




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Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d




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Causes of Consumerism:
Other Anti-intellectual Forces
    Sexual misconduct
      Child molestation and sexual slavery
      Premature sex with peers
      Sex industry
         Addictive

    Gambling
      Addictive
      Regressive tax that unjustly burdens the poor

    Historical myopia and ignorance
      “Dismembered history”
         Suppression of the long history of dissent

    Cultural poverty
      Literary, performing, and visual arts poverty
      Systematic destruction of authentic European culture, as well as that of African,
       Latin, Indigenous, and Asian cultures
 And that makes me and alternative historians bitches?

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Symptoms of Consumerism
Educational
 Poor academic performance
 Chronic underachievement
 Significant academic delays
     Written language
     Mathematics
     Applied subjects

  Academic apathy, frank anti-intellectualism
       Open hostility towards anyone daring to have intellectual life
  Chronic talking and cutting up in the classroom
       Cannot remain on task, refusal to do homework
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Symptoms, cont’d
Educational, cont’d
  Teachers disdained as “party-poopers,” “squares,” etc.
  High-functioning peers disdained and teased
     “Geeks,” “health nuts,” “tree-huggers,” “nerds,” etc.
     In African American communities, “acting white”

  Parents often similarly dysfunctional (not always)
  High-functioning parents disdained as “health nuts,”
   “Bible-thumpers,” “tree-huggers,” “squares,” etc.
  Can only get along with peers who are similarly
   dysfunctional
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Symptoms, cont’d
Educational and transitional
  Impaired attention span
  Impaired prefrontal function
  Abusive language in the classroom and the workplace
  Morally delayed or dysfunctional
  Cultural apathy and ignorance
  Impaired creativity and imagination
       Utter contempt for that of others
  Narcissism, self-abs0rption, and egocentricism
  Persists indefinitely into adulthood
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Symptoms, cont’d
Vocational
  Vocational apathy
  No work ethic
  Excessive absences in the workplace when there is no
   actual illness or injury
  Frequently “written up” in the workplace for goofing off
  Irresponsibility and impatience
  Frequent job quitting and firing
  Political and ideological apathy
  Lack of sympathy, sensitivity, and compassion
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Symptoms, cont’d
Temporal myopia
   Utter lack of interest or concern about the future
   Historical myopia and ignorance
   Absolutely living in the moment
Preoccupation with visual appearances
   Objectification of women
   Sexual fetishes transmitted through visual channel
        Racial, war, violence, undersized feet, and other baroque fetishes
    Civilization is in imminent danger of collapse because image
     is continually trumping substance
Minimal to moderate sensorineural hearing loss from
  excessively loud media, usually undiagnosed
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Symptoms, cont’d
Anosognosia
 Obstinate denial of one’s own mental dysfunction
Sexual misconduct
 Infidelity
 Sexual harassment
 Promiscuity
 Baroque fetishes
 Indulgence in sex industry
Pursuit of immediate and continual hedonism
 supersedes all other considerations
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Symptoms, cont’d
Life revolves around addictions and hedonism
   Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances
   Fast food, junk food, sweets, salt, and fat
   Fashion and compulsive shopping
   Television, sports, video games, hyperkinetic mass media,
    erotica, and pornography
   Sex and trophy mates
   Partying, gambling
   Trophy vehicles and reckless driving
   Trophy homes and compulsive overscheduling
   No interests or hobbies other than addictions
And that makes me a bitch?

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Robert Bly’s Descriptions
“Swimming with the half-adults”
“Living in the nafs” [the id]
“The sibling society”
  Taken from his book by this title
       And that makes me and him bitches?




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Somatic Risks of Consumerism
 Cardiovascular disease and other ischemic events
 Cancer
 High blood pressure
 Insulin-resistant (“type II”) diabetes
 Arthritis
 Osteoporosis
 Gallstones
 PMS
 Hot flashes
 Seasonal allergies

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Psychiatric Risks of Consumerism
   Insomnia
   Substance abuse
   Compulsive gambling
   Eating disorders
   Alzheimer and multi-infarct dementia
   Hoarding, compulsive shopping, compulsive sports watching,
    and compulsive overscheduling
   Violence, including family abuse, bullying, sexual assault,
    hate crimes, and domestic terrorism
   Suicide
And that makes me and alternative providers bitches?
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Global Epidemiology
Consumerism is a national pandemic that is inexorably
 pushing the U.S. towards becoming a failed state
The problem is less prevalent and severe in European
 countries, especially in East Europe
Consumerism is rare in Pacific Basin countries, especially
 in mainland China
    The Chinese Communist Party is the unwitting and
     undeserving beneficiary of Oriental medicine
Consumerism is unheard of among tropical peasants
   No industrialized diet, no iatrogenesis, no exposure to
    media, and no substance usage
And that makes me a bitch?
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Additional Observations
Epidemics, let alone pandemics, can never be genetic
When confronted about their dysfunction, consumerists
 often commit violence or sabotage
Persons in recovery programs will characterize
 consumerism as a synonym for addiction
   They’re absolutely right
   Consumerism is polyaddiction
“The American way of life” and “the American dream”
 touted by many politicians and the military are actually
 coded language for consumerism
And that makes me a bitch?

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Consequences of Consumerism: Extant
   War in the Middle East
   Global climate change and deforestation
     Deadly hurricanes
     Devastating drought and floods
     Rising sea levels
     Chilling of upper atmosphere destabilizing climate
     Spread of tropical diseases
   Unprecedented pollution and mass extinction
   Unprecedented extreme poverty in tropical countries
     Peasants forced to grow caffeine crops for the Western caffeine addiction instead of food
   Millions subjected to preventable brain damage and disabilities and deprived of decades
      of life because of iatrogenesis
         People should live to be 130, as they had in the Old Testament
     Mortgage and 401 (k) meltdowns
     Energy crisis
     Domestic poverty, especially among women, children, people of color, and the elderly
     Rigged elections block all possibility of real reform
     Loss of basic human rights and civil liberties
     Chinese Communist Party accumulating power

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Consequences of Consumerism: Future
     Insolvency of entitlements
       Medicare
       Social Security
     Financial meltdown spreads
       Credit cards
       Auto loans
       Student loans
       Other unsecured loans
     Default on national debt
       U.S.
       Other Western countries
       Former Soviet empire
       Dozens of tropical countries
     Global climate change becomes irreversible
       Deadly epidemics of tropical diseases
     Acceleration of domestic and tropical poverty, mass extinction
     Life expectancy crashes because of iatrogenesis
     People’s Republic of China conquers world
 And that makes me and Chinese dissidents bitches?


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Another World is Still Possible




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High-functioning Youth
 Usually come from high-functioning parents, but not always
    Dissent tends to run in the family
         Parental example and health consciousness rather than genetics
 The most positive, constructive, and desirable form of teenage
  rebellion against society
 College-bound or already in college
    The 4-year college student is the archetypical radical
 Seeks or has taken advanced placement courses
 Resolutely health and environmentally conscious
 Politically and ideologically active
 Deeply troubled and worried about the future
 Prefer obscure genres of “alternative music” over mass media drivel as
  a point of honor
 And this makes them bitches?

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What Real Socialism Looks Like
(Diametric Opposite of USSR)
Another world is possible
   World capitol in Jerusalem
        Each province represented in world parliament
        Federal system; each province has its own capitol, legislature, and
         courts
        Location of capitol promotes ecumenical harmony
    “Institutional death penalty”
      Abolition of:
         Nation-states, corporations, papacy, and nobility
         Metropolitan social clubs and Astroturf organizations
         Chinese Communist Party
         Medical and psychiatric profession and television
            Replaced by midwives, alternative medicine, and emergency
             surgery performed by entities of artificial intelligence

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A Safe, Sane, Sensible, and
Sustainable Alternative
“It takes a village (not a city) to raise a child”
   Cities razed except for world and provincial capitols
   Village life reinstated
   Villages connected to each other and to capitols by
    monorails, magnetic levitation, and the internet
   No papers required for interprovincial travel
   Swaths of wilderness connected to each other by
    corridors through which animals can migrate
   Pacific and Caribbean islands connected by ferries
   Aircraft only used for transoceanic travel
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Political Problems Never Have
Medical Solutions
Live simply so that others can simply live
   90% of population on organic family farms
        Supplemented by renewable energy equipment
   Balance are village artisans, public servants, artists, and
    clergy
        All the above endeavors sustain life
        All other “endeavors” destroy life
   Biblical attire habitually worn by both sexes
        Prevents breast and cervical cancer, homosexuality, and pedophilia
        Climate-appropriate, reduces or eliminates air conditioning
          Little Ice Age ended 150 years ago

        Maximum comfort and efficient use of resources
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Political Problems Only Have
Political Solutions
Speak truth to the people
   8th grade education restored to be the equivalent of today’s
    college degree, as it was in the 19th century
        I have an 8th grade final exam from a one-horse town in the Great
         Plains at the end of the 19th century to prove it
    Adolescents age 14-21 engaged in worldwide collective
     scientific research
        Cultural and gender bias, profit motive bias eliminated
    The purpose of an education is neither to find a suitable
     husband nor a suitable job
        Both of those are forms of prostitution, even for boys
    The primary purpose of an education is to have an
     intellectual life
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PROSTITUTION
 This Includes Men, Too
       And this makes me a bitch?




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Compelling Reasons to be an Organic
Farmer or a Village Artisan
No boss                                    No terminations
No arbitrary rules                         Better housing
No job interviews                          Access to healthy food
No commute                                 No job discrimination
No dress code                              No retaliation
No downsizing                              Health freedom
No offshoring                              Self-management of
No meetings                                    occupational and
More free time                                 environmental hazards
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The War between the States was actually the final showdown
between agrarian feudalism and industrial capitalism. This is
why Sherman burned the Deep South with impunity, so that
industrialization could proceed unchallenged. Only a small,
close-knit community of bloomer-wearing, teetotaling radicals
was ever genuinely concerned about the welfare of African
Americans; the megamaniacal industrialists merely co-opted
the issue of colonial slavery late in the war to rationalize their
bloodlust for power. Consequently, the benefit of the conflict
to African Americans was only temporary.
And this makes me and her bitches?
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Since the triumph of industrial capitalism during the War
between the States, the Western world, particularly the U.S.,
has been built on blood for jobs. Geopolitical militarism and
“blood for oil” is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Roman
imperialism, medieval papacy, and colonialism were all
precursors to blood for employment, but making a living
doing things that one should not be doing came to full fruition
once agrarian feudalism had been vanquished.
And that makes me a bitch?

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The Information Revolution
Industries Destroyed                           Replacements
 Military-industrial complex                   Renewable energy
 Mass media and sports                         High-tech transit
 Medical-industrial complex                    Education and basic research
 Agribusiness and processed                    Alternative medicine
  food                                          IT and robotics
 Fashion and cosmetics                         Family farms and workshops
 Beverage and tobacco                          Communication
 Fossil fuel and nuclear                       Resumption of moon shots,
 Gaming and sex                                 possible lunar mining
 Vehicular                                     Past crimes against humanity
 War on the poor thinly                         enforcement
  disguised as war on drugs
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The Ruling and Managerial Classes Are
the Real Luddites and Lysenkoists
 Renewable energy is more technologically advanced than fossil fuels and
  nuclear fission
 Nerve blocks are more technologically advanced than general anesthesia
 Information technology is more technologically advanced than television
 Alternative medicine is more biochemically advanced than pharmacology and
  surgery
 Recognition of man-made climate change is more scientific than its denial
 Recognition of post-anesthesia cognitive dysfunction and its accumulation in
  the population is more scientific than flagrant disrespect for human
  consciousness
 Monorails and magnetic levitation trains are more technologically advanced
  than automobiles
 Abstinence from caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, psychiatric drugs, and other drugs
  is more scientific than usage of any of these
 Environmental justice is more scientific than environmental racism
 Socialism is more scientific than capitalism
 Environmentalism is more scientific than industrialism
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Chances Are the Same Industrialist
Wrote Both of These Scripts, Too:
 The U.S. staged a fraudulent naval “attack” in           Over 100 million people a year are told that
    the Gulf of Tonkin to claim that an already               they have something defective that must be
    decrepit and unseaworthy ship had been                    surgically “corrected.” The minority with a
    destroyed by Soviet-sponsored forces from                 real problem, such as appendicitis or
    northern Vietnam                                          orthopedic injury, are denied nerve blocks,
   This tiny country on the opposite shore of the            which would've been much safer, less
    Pacific Ocean was invaded for no other reason             traumatic, and more cost effective.
    than to stimulate the economy, create jobs,              These victims are anesthetized for no other
    and make some already overprivileged people               reason than to stimulate the economy, create
    rich                                                      jobs, and make some already overprivileged
   Millions of Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers were             people rich
    killed                                                   Thousands of these each year die either
   Millions of Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers, as              intraoperatively, over the following year, or
    well as the Vietnamese environment, were                  commit suicide over the following year or so
    seriously and permanently harmed by napalm               All of the victims at best are permanently
    and Agent Orange                                          deprived of their creativity, imagination, and
   Some Vietnamese women and children were                   some of their personality, and at worst suffer
    sexually abused by U.S. soldiers or forced into           outright Alzheimer
    prostitution by poverty                                  Some victims are sexually abused and then
   Fornication between white men and Oriental                mislead that they were abducted and molested
    women became a major sexual fetish, a fetish              by aliens for scientifically impossible “genetic
    which did not exist in the 1940s                          experiments”
                                                             Anesthetized patients became a major sexual
                                                              fetish, a fetish which did not exist in the 1940s
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                            All rights reserved                                                               51
Most controversies are really about privileged whites keeping
their cushy jobs which destroy life for as long as possible.




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                 All rights reserved                             52
There are Two Types of Interventions
Abolition: liberation of the population from
 unwanted, suicidal practices imposed by laws, dogma,
 business rules, mass media propaganda, disease
 mongering, and other forms of ruling and managerial
 class coercion and intimidation. Elimination of forced
 and coerced consumption allows violent, militaristic
 practices to become extinct.
Prohibition: enactment of laws and/or dogma
 against risky but common behaviors, which millions
 risk significant criminal sanctions to continue.
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Examples of Interventions
Abolition                                      Prohibition
 Dress reform                                  Human carnivory
 Trans fats                                    Sugar
 Toxic additives                               Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and
 Fossil and nuclear fuels                       other drugs
 Coronary and valve surgery                    Gambling
 Chemo and radiation                           Pornography
 Anesthesia reform                             Sex outside marriage
 Psychiatry reform                             Abortion
 Prescription drugs                            Homosexuality
 Free trade agreements                         Assisted suicide
 Corporations                                  Vulgar language

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The yielding of ‘90s dot-com hype to neoconservatism has
shown that the information revolution will be much harder and
bloodier than the industrial revolution had been. None of the
warmongers, industrialists, capitalists, corporatists, or disease-
mongers are ever going to walk away from evasion of real work,
pipeline of addictions, and access to sexual prey, no matter how
good anyone’s thinking, oration, writing, poetic, artistic,
singing, songwriting, or filmmaking skills are. Unfortunately,
the physical survival of the biosphere is going to require
carefully organized cohesive force coupled with divine
intervention.     Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley
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Reforms to Capital Punishment
Requirements                                                              Exemptions
   Automatic if criterion is met; no execution if no criterion met          Crime committed before 18th birthday
       Entire human species reaches consensus online during                 Crime committed under the influence of or during
         webcast of trial                                                     withdrawal/rebound/hangover from any psychoactive substance
       Genocide or autocide                                                     Including psychiatric drugs
               Including organized slavery                                      Including painkillers
         Gynecide                                                               Including anesthetics
               Including sexual violence or slavery                         Acted alone
         Other crimes against humanity                                          No conspiracy or coverup by profession, political party,
         Ecocide                                                                   media, or religion
         Torture                                                            Exempt if all of these criteria are met:
               Including medical and/or psychiatric torture                     No political, racist, or evangelical agenda
          Organized conspiracy                                                  No organized crime involvement
          Seizure or maintenance of power                                       No sexual violence
   Public and webcast live                                                      No torture
       Must be 18+ to attend or login                                       Disability groups automatically exempted:
   Executioners chosen from spectators in a random drawing                      Intellectually disabled, a.k.a. mentally retarded
   Criteria and practice systematically and specifically engineered to          Untreated autism spectrum
    annihilate the ruling and managerial classes while sparing the               Demented
    working classes and the poor                                                 Brain injury
       Including titled royalty and nobility
                                                                                 Birth defect
       Including fascists and nationalists
                                                                                 Hereditary disease
       Including Warsaw Pact and Chinese Communists
                                                                                 Emotionally disturbed
       Including corporate functionaries
                                                                                 Legally deaf before 18th birthday
       Including clerics of misogynist and/or racist religions
                                                                                 Legally blind before 18th birthday
       Including the disease cartel
       Including organized crime

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“LET MY PEOPLE GO!”
    And that makes God a bitch?




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    All rights reserved                             57
A Sampling of People the Real Bitches
Have Murdered in Cold Blood
Jeremiah                                    Abraham Lincoln
Socrates                                    Huey “Kingfish” Long
John Baptist                                Mahatma Gandhi
Jesus Christ                                John F. Kennedy
Stephen                                     Malcolm X
Agnes (12 years old)                        Martin Luther King, Jr.
John Hus                                    Robert F. Kennedy
William Tyndale                             Salvador Allende
Thomas Cranmer                              Oscar Romero
Thomas Becket                               Benazir Bhutto
Joan of Arc                                 My uncle Melvin

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Underscore:
Fauré Requiem
Duruflé Requiem
  Sadly, this recording is out of print
My former church choir at St. Mary’s Cathedral
  Pavel Cheshnokov, “Salvation is Created”
  This CD, Christmas at St. Mary’s, can be ordered at
   http://www.stmarysmemphis.org by sending an email
   to Ty Legge in the music department.
  The Cathedral’s mailing address is 692 Poplar Ave.
   Memphis, TN 38105.
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               All rights reserved                             59
Please click to end show
References
Abramson, J. Overdo$ed America. New York: Harper Collins 2004.
Bly, R. The Sibling Society. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley 1996.
Breggin, P. R. Medication Madness. New York: St. Martin’s 2008.
Breggin, P. R. Toxic Psychiatry. New York: St. Martin’s 1991.
Brownlee, S. Overtreated. New York: Bloomsbury 2007.
Ellison, B. J. and Duesberg, P. H. Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS. El Cerrito, California:
    Inside Story 1994.
Episcopal Church, Lesser Feasts and Fasts. New York: Church Publishing, 2000.
Fenster, J. M. Ether Day. New York: Harper Collins 2001.
Kirby, D. Evidence of Harm. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin 2005.
Kozol, J. Savage Inequalities. New York: Crown 1991.
Lonsdale, D. Why I Left Orthodox Medicine. (Dang, I misplaced that book!)
Mendelsohn, R. S. Confessions of a Medical Heretic. Chicago: Contemporary 1979.
Newman, D. H. Hippocrates’ Shadow. New York: Scribner 2008.
Null, G. & Seaman, B. For Women Only! New York: Seven Stories 1999.
Project Censored, Censored (issued annually). New York: Seven Stories.
Robbins, J. Reclaiming Our Health. Tiburon, California: H. J. Kramer 1996.
Schlosser, E. Fast Food Nation. New York: Houghton Mifflin 2001.
Shelley, B. L. Church History in Plain Language, 2nd ed. Nashville: Thomas Nelson 1995.
… and living in this God-forsaken place for 45 years!

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248333 633901819510328750 ver2

  • 1. For Language Slides Will Change Automatically Theme: “Flow”
  • 2. The American Behavioral Pandemic in the Classroom, the Workplace, the Body Politic, the Culture, and Private Life, Which the Medical and Psychiatric Profession Obstinately REFUSES to Acknowledge... ...and that makes me a bitch?
  • 3. Pathetic Labels Contrived by Psychiatry to Conceal the Stark Reality of Consumerism  “Attention Defi¢it Hypera¢tivity Di$order”  Or whatever they’re calling it this week  “Anxiety Di$order” and “Pani¢ Di$order”  “Bipolar Di$order”  A diagnosis de jour that demonizes many emotional states  “¢ondu¢t Di$order”  Fortunately not recognized in Tennessee…yet  “Depre$$ion”  Oftentimes the consequences of anesthetization  “Ob$e$$ive ¢ompul$ive Di$order”  “Oppo$itional Defiant Di$order”  A politically motivated label used against progressives and liberals  “$¢hizophrenia”  Cover-up of infant molestation  Fraudulent genetic claims regarding alcoholism and all other substance abuse  They haven’t cloned and sequenced a goddamn thing  And that makes me and nonviolent therapists bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 3
  • 4. Chances Are the Same Industrialist Wrote Both of These Scripts A petty dictator in the Children are accused of Middle East is accused of having a disease (AD/HD) having WMD that do not that does not actually exist actually exist The media buys the lie The media buys the lie The medical profession The U.S. invades the country, invades the children’s bodies brazenly defying major with drugs, brazenly defying worldwide opposition major worldwide opposition Millions of civilians and U.S. Trillions of neurons die soldiers die And that makes me and And that makes me and concerned parents bitches? geopolitical pacifists bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 4
  • 5. Actual Disabilities vs. Social and Environmental Disasters Actual Disabilities Social Disasters Well-known before 20th Rare or unheard of before century 20th century Low incidence (rare) High incidence (epidemic) Manifested in appearance, Invisible, inaudible, no blood speech, blood test, optometry, audiology, and/or test or brain scan brain scan Reversible by remedial Static education Irreversible Reversible by alternative Already cloned and medicine sequenced if genetic No clone or sequence Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 5
  • 6. Actual Disabilities vs. Social Disasters cont’d Actual Disabilities Social Disasters  Cystic fibrosis  Emotional disturbances, e.g.  Hemophilia “depre$$ion,” “bipolar,” and “$  “Type I” diabetes ¢hizophrenia”  “AD/HD”  Cerebral palsy  “Type II” diabetes  Spina bifida  “Auti$m $pe¢trum”  Down and fragile X  “Learning di$abilities”  Sensory disabilities  “Language di$orders”  Speech disorders  “¢ondu¢t di$order”  Traumatic brain injury (TBI)  Mild retardation  Neuromuscular disease  AID$  Sickle cell disease Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 6
  • 7. Original Intent of Disability Legislation and Litigation  To rescue the following from incarceration in “mental hospitals”:  Intellectually disabled, a.k.a. mentally retarded  Emotionally disturbed  Untreated autism spectrum  Demented  Sexual minorities  Undiagnosed deaf  Undiagnosed speech disorders  To rescue the following from incarceration in institutions for the mentally retarded:  Intellectually disabled  Untreated autism spectrum  Undiagnosed deaf  Undiagnosed speech disorders  To rescue the following from incarceration in nursing homes:  Physically disabled  Health impaired  Demented  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 7
  • 8. Original Intent of Disability Legislation and Litigation, cont’d Ruling and managerial classes originally fought like dogs to stop these bills and lawsuits Proponents of legislation and litigants never meant to ram psychiatric drugs down the throats of tens of millions of innocent people; rather, they often sought the diametric opposite Now that the laws exist, they are being abused on a massive scale by the power-hungry ruling and managerial classes to push psychiatric drugs  FMLA, originally vehemently opposed by corporations, is now also being abused by them on an equally massive scale to evade ever having to pay sick leave And that makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 8
  • 9. Two Pandemics of Brain Damage Medieval Europe Industrial U.S.  Poverty  Chronic noncaloric malnutrition  Hunger  Family abuse  Family abuse  Including during pregnancy  Including during pregnancy  Alcohol  Alcohol  Iatrogenesis (medically induced)  War  Somatic  Crusades and local wars  Interference in childbirth  Torture  General anesthesia  Church and state  Prescription drugs  Psychiatric  Violent crime  Drugs  Equestrian accidents  Shock  Infectious diseases  Pollution  Bathing more than once a year strictly prohibited  Air, water, soil, and radiation  Enforced by Inquisition, pogroms, and Witch Hunts,  Education often reduced to warehousing a.k.a. Women’s Holocaust  Racism, casteism, and underfunding  No knowledge of antibiotics  The modern medical profession’s real claim to fame  Vehicular accidents  Discovery had been a complete accident  Other recreational drugs  Jousting injuries  Sports injuries  Lack of education  Violent crime  Education required for optimal brain development Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 9
  • 10. This progressive term is a much better explanation of these social and environmental disasters than fad diagnoses, especially as multiple symptoms often coincide in the same person, leading to a geometric progression of overlapping fad labels caused by the same dietary and environmental insults Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 10
  • 11. Demographics of Consumerism Consumerism is pandemic among native-born U.S. citizens Crosses gender, racial, and socioeconomic lines Prevalence and severity inexorably worsening with each successive generation of Americans Virtually unheard of among immigrants, regardless of country of origin or generation Roman Empire had disintegrated under similar circumstances, likely because of pandemic lead poisoning from the plumbing having been lined with lead And that makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 11
  • 12. Causes of Consumerism: Media Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 12
  • 13. Causes: Media, cont’d Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 13
  • 14. Causes: Media, cont’d  Violence  Effect on children incontrovertible  Advances racist stereotypes and incarceration  Encourages violence against women  Modeling of substance use, including the three legal substances and performance-enhancing drugs  Modeling of atrocious eating habits  Advertising  The most marketed products are the most dangerous  Induces addictions on a massive scale  Pornography and erotica  Subpornographic erotica as damaging as porn itself  Abusive and misogynist language  Rap and heavy metal lyrics  Labels never sign rappers with a social conscience  Shock jocks and talk radio  And that makes me and independent media bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 14
  • 15. Causes of Consumerism: Atrocious Diet Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 15
  • 16. Causes: Diet, cont’d  Contamination with toxic substances of agribusiness  Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and algaecides  These don’t know when to stop killing  Manufactured from carcinogenic petrochemicals  Toxic fertilizers  Excessive antibiotics in filthy factory farms  Foodborne diseases  Antibiotic-resistant diseases  My brother’s best friend’s fiancée died of an antibiotic-resistant disease  Growth hormones  Genetically engineered “frankenfoods”  Epidemic food allergies  Agribusiness waste disposed of in water supply as “fluoridation”  Known carcinogen and neurotoxin  Generates free radicals  Ironically, the U.S. diet was once the best in the world  And that makes me and organic farmers bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 16
  • 17. Causes of Consumerism: Environmental and Substance Use Environmental insults  Air and water pollution  Soil contamination  Lead poisoning from paint chips and lead plumbing  Environmental racism  Polluting plants invariably in people-of-color neighborhoods  Pesticides in schools, workplaces, and institutions  Radiation exposure, including during pregnancy  Occupational exposure, including during pregnancy Substance abuse  Starts with caffeine  Caffeine leads to alcohol, tobacco, and all other drugs And that makes me and environmentalists bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 17
  • 18. Causes of Consumerism: Iatrogenesis (Medically Induced) Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 18
  • 19. Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 19
  • 20. Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 20
  • 21. Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 21
  • 22. Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 22
  • 23. Causes: Iatrogenesis, cont’d Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 23
  • 24. Causes of Consumerism: Other Anti-intellectual Forces  Sexual misconduct  Child molestation and sexual slavery  Premature sex with peers  Sex industry  Addictive  Gambling  Addictive  Regressive tax that unjustly burdens the poor  Historical myopia and ignorance  “Dismembered history”  Suppression of the long history of dissent  Cultural poverty  Literary, performing, and visual arts poverty  Systematic destruction of authentic European culture, as well as that of African, Latin, Indigenous, and Asian cultures  And that makes me and alternative historians bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 24
  • 25. Symptoms of Consumerism Educational Poor academic performance Chronic underachievement Significant academic delays  Written language  Mathematics  Applied subjects Academic apathy, frank anti-intellectualism  Open hostility towards anyone daring to have intellectual life Chronic talking and cutting up in the classroom  Cannot remain on task, refusal to do homework Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 25
  • 26. Symptoms, cont’d Educational, cont’d Teachers disdained as “party-poopers,” “squares,” etc. High-functioning peers disdained and teased  “Geeks,” “health nuts,” “tree-huggers,” “nerds,” etc.  In African American communities, “acting white” Parents often similarly dysfunctional (not always) High-functioning parents disdained as “health nuts,” “Bible-thumpers,” “tree-huggers,” “squares,” etc. Can only get along with peers who are similarly dysfunctional Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 26
  • 27. Symptoms, cont’d Educational and transitional Impaired attention span Impaired prefrontal function Abusive language in the classroom and the workplace Morally delayed or dysfunctional Cultural apathy and ignorance Impaired creativity and imagination  Utter contempt for that of others Narcissism, self-abs0rption, and egocentricism Persists indefinitely into adulthood Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 27
  • 28. Symptoms, cont’d Vocational Vocational apathy No work ethic Excessive absences in the workplace when there is no actual illness or injury Frequently “written up” in the workplace for goofing off Irresponsibility and impatience Frequent job quitting and firing Political and ideological apathy Lack of sympathy, sensitivity, and compassion Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 28
  • 29. Symptoms, cont’d Temporal myopia  Utter lack of interest or concern about the future  Historical myopia and ignorance  Absolutely living in the moment Preoccupation with visual appearances  Objectification of women  Sexual fetishes transmitted through visual channel  Racial, war, violence, undersized feet, and other baroque fetishes  Civilization is in imminent danger of collapse because image is continually trumping substance Minimal to moderate sensorineural hearing loss from excessively loud media, usually undiagnosed Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 29
  • 30. Symptoms, cont’d Anosognosia Obstinate denial of one’s own mental dysfunction Sexual misconduct Infidelity Sexual harassment Promiscuity Baroque fetishes Indulgence in sex industry Pursuit of immediate and continual hedonism supersedes all other considerations Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 30
  • 31. Symptoms, cont’d Life revolves around addictions and hedonism  Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances  Fast food, junk food, sweets, salt, and fat  Fashion and compulsive shopping  Television, sports, video games, hyperkinetic mass media, erotica, and pornography  Sex and trophy mates  Partying, gambling  Trophy vehicles and reckless driving  Trophy homes and compulsive overscheduling  No interests or hobbies other than addictions And that makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 31
  • 32. Robert Bly’s Descriptions “Swimming with the half-adults” “Living in the nafs” [the id] “The sibling society” Taken from his book by this title  And that makes me and him bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 32
  • 33. Somatic Risks of Consumerism Cardiovascular disease and other ischemic events Cancer High blood pressure Insulin-resistant (“type II”) diabetes Arthritis Osteoporosis Gallstones PMS Hot flashes Seasonal allergies Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 33
  • 34. Psychiatric Risks of Consumerism  Insomnia  Substance abuse  Compulsive gambling  Eating disorders  Alzheimer and multi-infarct dementia  Hoarding, compulsive shopping, compulsive sports watching, and compulsive overscheduling  Violence, including family abuse, bullying, sexual assault, hate crimes, and domestic terrorism  Suicide And that makes me and alternative providers bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 34
  • 35. Global Epidemiology Consumerism is a national pandemic that is inexorably pushing the U.S. towards becoming a failed state The problem is less prevalent and severe in European countries, especially in East Europe Consumerism is rare in Pacific Basin countries, especially in mainland China  The Chinese Communist Party is the unwitting and undeserving beneficiary of Oriental medicine Consumerism is unheard of among tropical peasants  No industrialized diet, no iatrogenesis, no exposure to media, and no substance usage And that makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 35
  • 36. Additional Observations Epidemics, let alone pandemics, can never be genetic When confronted about their dysfunction, consumerists often commit violence or sabotage Persons in recovery programs will characterize consumerism as a synonym for addiction  They’re absolutely right  Consumerism is polyaddiction “The American way of life” and “the American dream” touted by many politicians and the military are actually coded language for consumerism And that makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 36
  • 37. Consequences of Consumerism: Extant  War in the Middle East  Global climate change and deforestation  Deadly hurricanes  Devastating drought and floods  Rising sea levels  Chilling of upper atmosphere destabilizing climate  Spread of tropical diseases  Unprecedented pollution and mass extinction  Unprecedented extreme poverty in tropical countries  Peasants forced to grow caffeine crops for the Western caffeine addiction instead of food  Millions subjected to preventable brain damage and disabilities and deprived of decades of life because of iatrogenesis  People should live to be 130, as they had in the Old Testament  Mortgage and 401 (k) meltdowns  Energy crisis  Domestic poverty, especially among women, children, people of color, and the elderly  Rigged elections block all possibility of real reform  Loss of basic human rights and civil liberties  Chinese Communist Party accumulating power Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 37
  • 38. Consequences of Consumerism: Future  Insolvency of entitlements  Medicare  Social Security  Financial meltdown spreads  Credit cards  Auto loans  Student loans  Other unsecured loans  Default on national debt  U.S.  Other Western countries  Former Soviet empire  Dozens of tropical countries  Global climate change becomes irreversible  Deadly epidemics of tropical diseases  Acceleration of domestic and tropical poverty, mass extinction  Life expectancy crashes because of iatrogenesis  People’s Republic of China conquers world  And that makes me and Chinese dissidents bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 38
  • 39. Another World is Still Possible Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 39
  • 40. High-functioning Youth  Usually come from high-functioning parents, but not always  Dissent tends to run in the family  Parental example and health consciousness rather than genetics  The most positive, constructive, and desirable form of teenage rebellion against society  College-bound or already in college  The 4-year college student is the archetypical radical  Seeks or has taken advanced placement courses  Resolutely health and environmentally conscious  Politically and ideologically active  Deeply troubled and worried about the future  Prefer obscure genres of “alternative music” over mass media drivel as a point of honor  And this makes them bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 40
  • 41. What Real Socialism Looks Like (Diametric Opposite of USSR) Another world is possible  World capitol in Jerusalem  Each province represented in world parliament  Federal system; each province has its own capitol, legislature, and courts  Location of capitol promotes ecumenical harmony  “Institutional death penalty”  Abolition of:  Nation-states, corporations, papacy, and nobility  Metropolitan social clubs and Astroturf organizations  Chinese Communist Party  Medical and psychiatric profession and television  Replaced by midwives, alternative medicine, and emergency surgery performed by entities of artificial intelligence Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 41
  • 42. A Safe, Sane, Sensible, and Sustainable Alternative “It takes a village (not a city) to raise a child” Cities razed except for world and provincial capitols Village life reinstated Villages connected to each other and to capitols by monorails, magnetic levitation, and the internet No papers required for interprovincial travel Swaths of wilderness connected to each other by corridors through which animals can migrate Pacific and Caribbean islands connected by ferries Aircraft only used for transoceanic travel Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 42
  • 43. Political Problems Never Have Medical Solutions Live simply so that others can simply live  90% of population on organic family farms  Supplemented by renewable energy equipment  Balance are village artisans, public servants, artists, and clergy  All the above endeavors sustain life  All other “endeavors” destroy life  Biblical attire habitually worn by both sexes  Prevents breast and cervical cancer, homosexuality, and pedophilia  Climate-appropriate, reduces or eliminates air conditioning  Little Ice Age ended 150 years ago  Maximum comfort and efficient use of resources Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 43
  • 44. Political Problems Only Have Political Solutions Speak truth to the people  8th grade education restored to be the equivalent of today’s college degree, as it was in the 19th century  I have an 8th grade final exam from a one-horse town in the Great Plains at the end of the 19th century to prove it  Adolescents age 14-21 engaged in worldwide collective scientific research  Cultural and gender bias, profit motive bias eliminated  The purpose of an education is neither to find a suitable husband nor a suitable job  Both of those are forms of prostitution, even for boys  The primary purpose of an education is to have an intellectual life Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 44
  • 45. PROSTITUTION This Includes Men, Too And this makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 45
  • 46. Compelling Reasons to be an Organic Farmer or a Village Artisan No boss No terminations No arbitrary rules Better housing No job interviews Access to healthy food No commute No job discrimination No dress code No retaliation No downsizing Health freedom No offshoring Self-management of No meetings occupational and More free time environmental hazards Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 46
  • 47. The War between the States was actually the final showdown between agrarian feudalism and industrial capitalism. This is why Sherman burned the Deep South with impunity, so that industrialization could proceed unchallenged. Only a small, close-knit community of bloomer-wearing, teetotaling radicals was ever genuinely concerned about the welfare of African Americans; the megamaniacal industrialists merely co-opted the issue of colonial slavery late in the war to rationalize their bloodlust for power. Consequently, the benefit of the conflict to African Americans was only temporary. And this makes me and her bitches? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 47
  • 48. Since the triumph of industrial capitalism during the War between the States, the Western world, particularly the U.S., has been built on blood for jobs. Geopolitical militarism and “blood for oil” is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Roman imperialism, medieval papacy, and colonialism were all precursors to blood for employment, but making a living doing things that one should not be doing came to full fruition once agrarian feudalism had been vanquished. And that makes me a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 48
  • 49. The Information Revolution Industries Destroyed Replacements  Military-industrial complex  Renewable energy  Mass media and sports  High-tech transit  Medical-industrial complex  Education and basic research  Agribusiness and processed  Alternative medicine food  IT and robotics  Fashion and cosmetics  Family farms and workshops  Beverage and tobacco  Communication  Fossil fuel and nuclear  Resumption of moon shots,  Gaming and sex possible lunar mining  Vehicular  Past crimes against humanity  War on the poor thinly enforcement disguised as war on drugs Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 49
  • 50. The Ruling and Managerial Classes Are the Real Luddites and Lysenkoists  Renewable energy is more technologically advanced than fossil fuels and nuclear fission  Nerve blocks are more technologically advanced than general anesthesia  Information technology is more technologically advanced than television  Alternative medicine is more biochemically advanced than pharmacology and surgery  Recognition of man-made climate change is more scientific than its denial  Recognition of post-anesthesia cognitive dysfunction and its accumulation in the population is more scientific than flagrant disrespect for human consciousness  Monorails and magnetic levitation trains are more technologically advanced than automobiles  Abstinence from caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, psychiatric drugs, and other drugs is more scientific than usage of any of these  Environmental justice is more scientific than environmental racism  Socialism is more scientific than capitalism  Environmentalism is more scientific than industrialism Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 50
  • 51. Chances Are the Same Industrialist Wrote Both of These Scripts, Too:  The U.S. staged a fraudulent naval “attack” in  Over 100 million people a year are told that the Gulf of Tonkin to claim that an already they have something defective that must be decrepit and unseaworthy ship had been surgically “corrected.” The minority with a destroyed by Soviet-sponsored forces from real problem, such as appendicitis or northern Vietnam orthopedic injury, are denied nerve blocks,  This tiny country on the opposite shore of the which would've been much safer, less Pacific Ocean was invaded for no other reason traumatic, and more cost effective. than to stimulate the economy, create jobs,  These victims are anesthetized for no other and make some already overprivileged people reason than to stimulate the economy, create rich jobs, and make some already overprivileged  Millions of Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers were people rich killed  Thousands of these each year die either  Millions of Vietnamese and U.S. soldiers, as intraoperatively, over the following year, or well as the Vietnamese environment, were commit suicide over the following year or so seriously and permanently harmed by napalm  All of the victims at best are permanently and Agent Orange deprived of their creativity, imagination, and  Some Vietnamese women and children were some of their personality, and at worst suffer sexually abused by U.S. soldiers or forced into outright Alzheimer prostitution by poverty  Some victims are sexually abused and then  Fornication between white men and Oriental mislead that they were abducted and molested women became a major sexual fetish, a fetish by aliens for scientifically impossible “genetic which did not exist in the 1940s experiments”  Anesthetized patients became a major sexual fetish, a fetish which did not exist in the 1940s Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 51
  • 52. Most controversies are really about privileged whites keeping their cushy jobs which destroy life for as long as possible. Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 52
  • 53. There are Two Types of Interventions Abolition: liberation of the population from unwanted, suicidal practices imposed by laws, dogma, business rules, mass media propaganda, disease mongering, and other forms of ruling and managerial class coercion and intimidation. Elimination of forced and coerced consumption allows violent, militaristic practices to become extinct. Prohibition: enactment of laws and/or dogma against risky but common behaviors, which millions risk significant criminal sanctions to continue. Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 53
  • 54. Examples of Interventions Abolition Prohibition  Dress reform  Human carnivory  Trans fats  Sugar  Toxic additives  Caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, and  Fossil and nuclear fuels other drugs  Coronary and valve surgery  Gambling  Chemo and radiation  Pornography  Anesthesia reform  Sex outside marriage  Psychiatry reform  Abortion  Prescription drugs  Homosexuality  Free trade agreements  Assisted suicide  Corporations  Vulgar language Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 54
  • 55. The yielding of ‘90s dot-com hype to neoconservatism has shown that the information revolution will be much harder and bloodier than the industrial revolution had been. None of the warmongers, industrialists, capitalists, corporatists, or disease- mongers are ever going to walk away from evasion of real work, pipeline of addictions, and access to sexual prey, no matter how good anyone’s thinking, oration, writing, poetic, artistic, singing, songwriting, or filmmaking skills are. Unfortunately, the physical survival of the biosphere is going to require carefully organized cohesive force coupled with divine intervention. Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 55
  • 56. Reforms to Capital Punishment Requirements Exemptions  Automatic if criterion is met; no execution if no criterion met  Crime committed before 18th birthday  Entire human species reaches consensus online during  Crime committed under the influence of or during webcast of trial withdrawal/rebound/hangover from any psychoactive substance  Genocide or autocide  Including psychiatric drugs  Including organized slavery  Including painkillers  Gynecide  Including anesthetics  Including sexual violence or slavery  Acted alone  Other crimes against humanity  No conspiracy or coverup by profession, political party,  Ecocide media, or religion  Torture  Exempt if all of these criteria are met:  Including medical and/or psychiatric torture  No political, racist, or evangelical agenda  Organized conspiracy  No organized crime involvement  Seizure or maintenance of power  No sexual violence  Public and webcast live  No torture  Must be 18+ to attend or login  Disability groups automatically exempted:  Executioners chosen from spectators in a random drawing  Intellectually disabled, a.k.a. mentally retarded  Criteria and practice systematically and specifically engineered to  Untreated autism spectrum annihilate the ruling and managerial classes while sparing the  Demented working classes and the poor  Brain injury  Including titled royalty and nobility  Birth defect  Including fascists and nationalists  Hereditary disease  Including Warsaw Pact and Chinese Communists  Emotionally disturbed  Including corporate functionaries  Legally deaf before 18th birthday  Including clerics of misogynist and/or racist religions  Legally blind before 18th birthday  Including the disease cartel  Including organized crime Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 56
  • 57. “LET MY PEOPLE GO!” And that makes God a bitch? Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 57
  • 58. A Sampling of People the Real Bitches Have Murdered in Cold Blood Jeremiah Abraham Lincoln Socrates Huey “Kingfish” Long John Baptist Mahatma Gandhi Jesus Christ John F. Kennedy Stephen Malcolm X Agnes (12 years old) Martin Luther King, Jr. John Hus Robert F. Kennedy William Tyndale Salvador Allende Thomas Cranmer Oscar Romero Thomas Becket Benazir Bhutto Joan of Arc My uncle Melvin Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 58
  • 59. Underscore: Fauré Requiem Duruflé Requiem Sadly, this recording is out of print My former church choir at St. Mary’s Cathedral Pavel Cheshnokov, “Salvation is Created” This CD, Christmas at St. Mary’s, can be ordered at http://www.stmarysmemphis.org by sending an email to Ty Legge in the music department. The Cathedral’s mailing address is 692 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38105. Copyright © 2008-2009 by Marjorie E. Steakley All rights reserved 59
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Editor's Notes

  1. Most health care can be restored to midwives and pro-environment providers, the true descendents of Hippocrates. The only types of surgery that are actually worth something—trauma, emergency appendectomy, orthopedic, burn, and reconstructive—would be performed by entities of artificial intelligence, which by definition will be asexual and socialist.
  2. Melvin Steakley was a civil rights advocate and a religion columnist for a Houston paper, who was killed with his own gun in a perfect crime in 1965. Police ruled it a suicide, even though he had been receiving death threats.