For my Wise and Generous Parents, to creatures of the Blue Planet:
areer and pride direct the affairs of knowledge, bending truth till it fits the untenable curve of insatiable self-interests.
Rule of mob pervades even the hallowed halls of learning, where dreams and aspirations of the willing young facade a fossilized establishment of stupendous intellectual decay, tended by power-mongering and poisoned by commercial interest.
One deciphers a duality in Earth’s approach to advancement: effrontery feigning noble quest masks a heaving maggot-ridden carcase of interminable personal strivings and petty economics.
At face value your science is the rational face of humanity (and religion its conscience), a torch of pure knowledge expunging dark ignorance. Yet every field of greatness is dominated by so-called men of science whose great intellect is exceeded by a towering, acquisitive, perpetual arrogance.
Everywhere, every field of research, where only the god of pure truth should rule, instead one sees a mocking riot of idolatry. The evil coupling of funded research and besetting egotism sours Earth’s science to a curdled caricature.
Apart from the science of death, that abominable miscreant of human effort, the military-industrial symbiote, one field of endeavor stands testimony to your crumbling comprehension - human health.
The deceit and manipulation of medical fact is the most dismayingly grim indicator of ineptness and self-delusion of Ye the Keepers of this Rock of Small Faith.
You approach life as a steeple chase, neither trained as jockeys nor understanding of horses, and in total ignorance of the yet unstudied course, prepared to ‘wing it’ on both chance and the slenderest of knowledge. Preparation assumes little more than asking the bookmaker how you might run the race.
So, too, it is in the care and maintenance of human body and mind.
First, the mind. While up-market psychiatrists attend anxieties of the wealthy, public health tends the poor insane, treating them with glitzy marketed snake oils sold by lobbyists to their Government masters, and, stretched to thin, ignoring a century of commonsense research by renegade genius working outside the medical establishment, itself run by those very societies of ‘eminent’ conservative psychiatrists fighting in shrill dishonesty to prevent their false art being divvied to emerging sciences.
Second, the body. Dwindling saints of applied medicine, your fabled general practitioners, harried by government bean counters, assailed by aggressive forked tongue marketers from drug cartels, sit bemused before you, who presents with not so much symptoms of some mysterious disease but rather a bevy of indicators suggesting you border on blatant incompetence as maintainer of that entrusted yet sadly abused sack of failing flesh.
All this awash in a sea of vociferous, self-seeking, and mischievous commercial medicine and research, where anything is done or said to sell a drug or a technology. A swirl of misinformation of breathtaking audacity. A medical establishment whose clutch on power rivals a death grip.
And a vast bedrock of ignored truth, buried beneath clutter and garbage, the thimble and pea brochures of medical marketing hypnotizing frontline medicos, like the gutter press entrances the great unwashed.
If Earth cannot rationalize its simple health care needs, it is most unlikely to maintain control of any other technologies.
