Lemmings: a follow up on drug use in america

There's word from down south (a topic which seems so dear to me right now; I view that country as a societal harbinger for what the rest of us in North America will come to accept) that the White House wants to drastically expand the mandate of the Texas Medication Algorithm Program. TMAP seeks to standardize psychological disorder under a treatment lexicon of pharmaceutical applications. Much has been made of the links between this initiative and the pharmaceutical lobby.

In a move sure to provoke Aldous Huxley scholars everywhere, the proposal for a national program equivalent to TMAP involves the mandatory screening of the entire population for mental illness.

While reading things like this article from the British Medical Journal , you have to wonder how massive an effect grade 9 english class had on the White House staff. They seem to view a hybrid Orwell-Huxley literary society as a biblical inevitability.

Looks to me like an attempt to make a shitload of cash for pharmaceuticals while simultaneously initiating a form of social control through psychotropics. Like Coke and General Motors, TMAP seeks to capture people as life-long consumers of pharmaceutical products by targetting the youth. In terms of been constituted with a captive, highly impressionable collection of individuals, schools are obviously the most vulnerable public institution in terms of corporate initiatives.

Maybe if this happens before the next election, the American population will have a pharmaceutical excuse for passively accepting yet another Republican governmental coup (they've come so far since Kennedy, there's no way they can stop now!).

Good old population control. May the American Citizen rest in peace, draped in the innocence of their complicity.



As a totally related non-sequitur, isn't that old computer game Lemmings really fucking good. Boy, wish I could play that game RIGHT NOW.