MESSGAGE
THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
When Sarah Boston veterinarian was being treated
for cancer the receptionist at the radiation clinic refused
to look up at her With head down she grunted: Put your
card in the box
Seems that we’re treating humans like animals & animals with
dignity Sarah thinks that her dog+cat patients get better health
care than humans do It’s faster with a focus on quality of life Imagine
Yesterday a young man told me that: Monkeys with Ebola isolate
themselves from the tribe They sacrifice themselves They walk
into the jungle to die There seems to be a naked wisdom here sorely
lacking among clothed apes
I posit that the clothed ape has grown profoundly depressed
through exposure to repeated violence + atrocity particularly
in the late 20th century One may only hope that somewhere
not where we are the truelife is being lived This is likely a crapshoot
Ditto the treatment for depression
Take the 24 yr. old rapper Abdel Bary He tweeted a selfie with
a severed head The comment read: Chillin with my homie He had
simply picked up & posed with one of hundreds of heads left on the
roadside after a mass beheading by ISIS
It may be a no-brainer that we desperately need a 3rd arm of psychiatry
Not meds +not therapy Surgery too was tried via lobotomy and it failed
miserably It doesn’t cost money to look up with kind eyes and say: Yes you
are in the right place We can help just TURN OFF YOUR SCREENS
And in the distance the sea falls endlessly as humanlife imitates the worst of
our technology: Comprehensive analysis of violent interactive video game
research suggests such exposure increases aggressive behaviour thoughts
angry feelings physiological arousal & decreases helpful behaviour Armies
now use violent video games to desensitize soldiers to killing
Peter Neumann director of The Centre for Radicalization London said:
Detectives should use basic techniques to find the beheaders Read their
tweets they will give away clues Just because they are terrorists who behead
people doesn’t mean they don’t talk about football clubs Many are in their teens
& 20’s they will let their guard down
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Fall 2014
Louis Armstrong said it best: “What a Wonderful World”