This world is a wonder. In the quantum worldview, the world runs on energy—both occult and overt. But the world remains an enigma and what we see here is not the reality. What we see is Adi Shankara’s maya which Nobel Laureate Hans Peter Durr calls Wirklichkiet, a drama, in German.
In reality, what runs the world is money, muscle and brain power. Of the three, the first, money power, is the most dominant. Up until money came into this world, humankind was altruistic (homo-altruisticus); ever since money came here, altruism went out through the window and greed took charge and humankind became man’s greatest enemy (homo-economicus). William Wordsworth put it so beautifully in his poem, The World is too much with us, thus: “…little do we see in nature that is ours… we have sold our soul to the devil.”
The Innu community study in the Innu land, off the coast of Saskatchewan in Canada, showed how the Innus, who were ignorant of the ways of this world until Canadian economic system invaded them in 1732, led an egalitarian society without any illness or unhappiness. With money, came disease and misery.
The most powerful money clout in the world is that of the drugs and device lobby which is worth trillions of dollars and is thrice as powerful as the oil lobby. The November US presidential election was controlled by the drug lobby. The documentary film SICKO, by Michel Moore, shows how every single US congressman and senator is under the thumb of the prescription drug barons. They, and their indirect bosses, who pose to the world as philanthropists, are, in fact, real cut-throat businessmen who live on human misery called illnesses. If that is so in the most enlightened country like the USA, one can only imagine the state of affairs in other countries!
Let us throw some light on how this powerful lobby tries to medicalise the whole of mankind, to keep its coffers filled. I call that the sickness industry, the most lucrative one at that. They have even devised a new sub-set called screening industry which tries to make every human being a patient when he/she comes for a check-up.
In my previous piece, I have described how the cancer industry works. It is not for nothing that thinkers like Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling and many others have called cancer research, and even cancer charity, a fraud! The next biggest medical money-spinners are the recent addition of so many hi-tech vaccines. There seems to be a vaccine for every illness now. Thanks to the manufacturing techniques and the additives and preservatives, many vaccines are capable of creating new diseases like autism. A recent BBC documentary shows the dangers of doctors prescribing too many medicines and doing so many unnecessary tests that they are damaging human health, to a great extent.
Medicalising death is another big money spinner. The last 10 days of the dying contribute to 90% of the corporate hospital profits in the ICCU (intensive cardiac care units). One must read Atul Gawande’s wonderful book Being Mortal, to gauge the level to which corporate medicine has sunk, to make money using death as a tool. When Breath Becomes Air is another poignant book by a young brilliant neurosurgeon at Stanford who suffered at the hands of cancer specialists!
Way back in 1823, James Wakeley, a young physician member of the House of Commons, investigated to find that the London doctors, of those days, were a bunch of “corrupt, incompetent, nepotistic fools” who were like an abscess on the patient’s body. Being a passionate doctor, he started the prestigious medical science journal and named it The Lancet denoting that this lancet should teach London doctors some science and help drain the pus from the abscess that they had become. Recently, the present editor of that journal, Richard Horton, appointed a medical historian to find out its impact on the medical profession after nearly 185 years. The report’s essence was that “doctors have now transformed themselves into a huge corporate monstrosity eating into mankind’s health all over the globe!” God save mankind from these greedy monsters.