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I have a few irl friends who really like RFK Jr. and it’s a really interesting dynamic. Because they’re almost exclusively just kind of like… dude bros who do not really pay attention to politics… but RFK phrases almost everything he does so vaguely and ephemerally that I think it tricks people into thinking he’s got it all figured out.
Like Joe Biden and even Donald Trump typically will list some specific policies or actions they want to do to reach a goal. Subsidize EVs to combat climate change, provide federal funding to make community college free, build the wall, whatever. RFK almost exclusively just says “we…. Should make housing…. Cheaper and more available… and also..? It’s time we end all the unjust violence…”
It’s all just such vague platitudes that I think people see just that and think “wow, he’s the only sane candidate!”
Then you dive into his actual views and it’s like… ‘antidepressants actually cause school shootings’
Tangential note but where do people stand on overprescribing medications that essentially numb or alter the mind in perhaps unexpected ways?
I think of the fact that 1/3+ of the country is modifying their brain's chemistry from doctors routinely receiving kickbacks from pharmaceuticals and it absolutely terrifies me.
From lithium to benzos to stimulants like Ritalin to Adderall.. I really hope the medical industry knows what it's doing.
But then I think about how oxy was massively over prescribed and I have my doubts. I don't think this is a conspiracy theory as much as a genuine concern with a historical pattern of abuse from the industry. I fear we are all masking symptoms rather than identifying and resolving root causes at the societal and individual level.
Without trying to sound like a lunatic, this has been covered by reputable outlets like PBS Frontline with The Medicated Child.
I just came from a soccer game with my toddler. Toddler. And parents are already threatening their kids if they stop running off the field to get a drink of water, screaming at their kid. I think about how many lazy fucks shouldn't be parents and project their own laziness on their child and manifest a problem. Eg, "my child isn't being obedient enough; they don't want to sit still!" echoing this Sir Ken Robinson's Ted Talk School Kills Creativity reflects my sentiment.
I don't know...it's just been on my mind.
I see people I know in their 30s just figuring out that issues they've struggled with their whole lives are common, diagnosisable, treatable disorders. Some help, not just medication of course, early would have saved them a lot of struggle and grief. It's hard to say we should discourage that.