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
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