In a world where institutional trust erodes by the day and personal tragedies unfold in the shadows of pharmaceutical empires, I find myself returning — again and again — to a singular truth: that healing, meaning, and sovereignty cannot be outsourced. What follows is not a critique in the traditional sense, but a reckoning. A tracing of the fractures. A call, perhaps, for remembrance in an age of forgetting.
Tag: medical industrial complex
There are moments when a meme, a quote, or a seemingly offhand remark cracks open the door to something much deeper. In this exchange, what began with a questionable quote attributed to Gaddafi became an excavation — of truth, propaganda, history, medicine, and empire. What emerged wasn’t just a dialogue, but a reminder: if we’re serious about reclaiming our health, autonomy, and discernment, we have to be willing to rethink everything we’ve been told.
Think about how often we see these issues presented and portrayed as enemies, threats, or inescapable and inevitable events that will befall the majority of humans in TV shows, movies, and other modern media: Infertility and natural birthing adversities, obesity and chronic illness, cancer, autism, and more recently, “gender dysphoria.” There are many, many more, of course, but these are five of the more prevalent, trendy, and popular — and massively profitable — concerns in the current era. One side continues to rake in trillions in profits while the human factor continues to suffer, to worry, and to have shorter, less productive, and unfulfilling lives.