People come in to the emergency room every day who are 80, 100, or even 200 pounds overweight. They have been eating garbage, they have a blood alcohol that’s over 200, cholesterol over 300, and their urine is positive for barbiturates, or cannabinoids. Then they demand we fix them with a pill or something.
They come in with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and you tell them the only way they will stop this, is to stop smoking weed. They call you a liar, complain loudly about the “healthcare system” and its failings, then leave. Two days later, they are back again. Same complaint.
Then there is the guy who comes in showing all the signs and symptoms of an acute appendicitis. We tell him he needs surgery. He signs out against medical advice because he has things to do that afternoon. Stupid, but whatever. What’s incredible about this, is he comes back at 8 am the next morning saying he is ready for surgery, but we need to do it and have him out by noon, because he is busy and doesn’t have time to waste.
People don’t have to take responsibility for anything.
We are in a society that has abandoned objective reality and reason. We each have our own truth- men can be women, Lindsay was a good mother who just snapped and killed her children but it wasn’t her fault because the health care system failed her. In that kind of a society, there can be no choice between what is good or what is evil, because in such a society, there can be no truth, only subjective reality.
As the nation slides farther and farther from the foundations mooring it to reality, it will become more and more insane. If you don’t like what is real, simply substitute your own reality for the inconvenient one. There is no such thing as the golden rule, no such thing as right or wrong. There is only you. Each person gets to decide what it is THEY want, without regard for what society wants or even needs.
In such a scenario, you get anarchy.
Yet anarchy can’t exist for long. Sooner or later, usually sooner, someone comes along and brings order to what is now chaos. The unfortunate fact is the person who brings order is usually a tyrant.
That’s where we are right now, so each of us needs to harden our hearts and be prepared for what is to come. Things will continue to get worse as the society that was once these United States begins to slide down the cliff into the abyss of history.
“A sane person to an insane society must appear insane” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
10 Comments
Seamrog · September 10, 2026 at 8:57 am
I am with you on the obesity / drugs / alcohol thing. I have lost almost 75 lbs and feel so much better. Am doing weights again and when I pick up 75 lbs, I cannot believe how heavy that is and how much weight I was carrying around all day, every day. Never going back.
No drugs, no smoking, but did snuggle up to booze every night. Weeding that out too. Amazing how much better you feel waking up without a hangover. Couple months sober now and shooting for one year.
There are many out there who are deeply distrustful of the medical ‘industry’ now. The covid bullshit certainly contributed, but is also quite clear that every time one goes to the doctor, you are first and foremost a revenue stream for the system. Tests, bloodwork, scans, follow ups, and the doctor never looks at you in the eye or spends more than two minutes actually listening to you. They stare at the computer screen the entire time typing in data to fees the system and satisfy the professional liability requirements.
There is little I hate more than going to the doctor. I have a good friend who is a surgeon and his wife is a GP in family medicine. Both have gotten out in the last year due to the bullshit, and they say many, many more heritage physicians, surgeons, dentists, etc. are doing the same. They are being replaced with third world cut-rate warm bodies.
Buyer beware. Do what you can to lose weight, get in shape, cut bad things out of your life and try and avoid the doctor. An apple a day and all that.
My wife has leukemia and a host of other serious auto-immune issues that we think stem from the ‘covid vaccine’ she took on the advice of her doctor. The doctor told her six months ago that she thinks the vaccine likely kicked the auto-immune into what she is facing now. Go figure.
I spend far more time in doctor’s offices than most, and this is our experience. It sucks.
Boneman · September 10, 2026 at 1:35 pm
Good on ya man. 41 years sober myself. It can be done. Perseverance and follow the “suggested” instructions. I too have a spouse with a laundry list of afflictions. Two are debilitating and one is life threatening and the runarounds we go through… And the MILES we put in to find the best care.
I bet our host is familiar with the Morsani Center in Tampa. We run up there from N. Ft. Myers every three months to take advantage of the expertise there. You gotta do what you gotta do.
ODAAT!
Boneman
JimmyPx · September 10, 2026 at 8:58 am
DM, you’re right. We are in a repeat of the Weimer Republic.
You already see that most people want a savior and his name isn’t Jesus.
Look at the messianic overtones of Obama and Trump.
I fear the elites are purposely planning our crash and to “control” the revolution.
However like the French nobility before the French Revolution, they didn’t realize once that genie is out of the bottle, it is difficult to control.
It’s a rough road ahead for sure.
Joe Blow · September 10, 2026 at 9:28 am
I believe you are correct.
The lack of accountability among our society will lead to its downfall, and in the anarchy, a tyrant will rise to the occasion. That is actually the main part of the commie’s plans. Fuck everything up so bad the people will clamor for their iron-fisted rule. Their problem is they aligned w/ the freaks and weirdo’s, so main-stream society has no interest in following along just to keep the peace. There’s too much cost at stake. Life as known will end under leftist rule, and I don’t think the majority will stand for it.
Steady Steve · September 10, 2026 at 1:12 pm
Some people have not abandoned objective reality and reason. For them it never existed as they were not educated in such a manner as to develop critical thinking skills. This is why our society is in so much trouble. I, for one, can’t stand to be around or talk to such people for more than a few minutes.
Snuffy · September 10, 2026 at 1:49 pm
Recently the AfD has made some gains in certain areas of the Fatherland. The media insists on referring to them as far right. They refer to MAGA as far right. They refer to any party in any country that claims to want no illegal immigrants, a strong military, etc, as far right. They think Trump is a hard man. They think the Austrian painter was a hard man. They think Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot and Pinochet were hard men. They have yet see a truly hard man. But he’s on his way. And when he shows up, they’re going to long for the Trump days.
Grumpy51 · September 10, 2026 at 10:07 pm
Wellllllll, we did it to ourselves. The moment we quit having duels (forcing one to defend their actions/words), that we robbed the treasury, that we listened to anyone say “but the children….” (or fill in the blank with your specific word), etc, etc ad nauseam.
EVERY civilization goes through this eventually…. why??? Because soft men bring hard times…….
MiguelGFZ · September 11, 2026 at 5:15 am
“People come in to the emergency room every day who are 80, 100, or even 200 pounds overweight. They have been eating garbage, they have a blood alcohol that’s over 200, cholesterol over 300”
I know you are not the only one in the medical field that has seen the same thing and its consequences, but can you tell me how come there are so many people working in medicine that are keeping the same frigging “health” habits?
I see and deal with people who made health choices has put them in wheelchairs, made them lose limbs or senses. Yet they are being cared by medical personnel doing the same thing as if they do not see themselves ending in the same place. Why is frigging beyond me.
Hell, make it a post on its own because I figure it is not a short answer.
Divemedic · September 11, 2026 at 7:26 am
I’m not against those habits. Hell, I could lose some weight myself. Where I have a problem is when you have those habits and then blame the medical profession because they can’t fix the health issues that result from it.
I see this every single day- someone comes to the ED and thinks we can give them a magic treatment that will fix 20 years of poor habits and permit them to go on living that unhealthy lifestyle.
Then when we tell them that isn’t possible, they run around and trash talk the “broken US healthcare system” all the while ignoring the high rates of:
– The US is number one in substance abuse, with 3.8% of Americans being addicted to alcohol or drugs
– about 40% of Americans are obese
– 25% of Americans have cholesterol above 200
So yeah, I am guilty, but I won’t blame anyone else but myself for what I put in my mouth.
Bear Claw · September 11, 2026 at 11:09 am
Many are looking for that magic bullet. It won’t ever work, it comes down to exercise and what we stuff in our pie hole. The makers of ozempic and the other one will get richer than the Sackler family did off OxyContin. My curiosity is on what the future side effects will be.
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