Dumbing Down Society Part I: Foods, Beverages and Meds
June 30th, 2010Via: Vigilant Citizen:
Scientific data has been proving for years that governments around the world are tolerating the selling of many products which have a direct and negative effect on cognitive and physical health.
There are tradeoffs, but reading about side effects of certain birth control pills can sound awful. Perhaps only 5-10% are effected, and perhaps some effects are falsely implicated (they would have the problem anyway). http://www.medications.com/se/yasmin
From Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols:
“Yet [ancient Indian society] too found it necessary to be terrible–this time not in the struggle with beasts, but with their counter-concept, the unbred man, the mish-mash man, the chandala. And again it had no other means for keeping him from being dangerous, for making him weak, than to make him sick–it was the fight with the “great number.” . . . . [One edict] ordains that the only nourishment permitted to the chandala shall be garlic and onions . . . [t]he same edict orders that the water they need may not be taken from rivers or wells, nor from ponds, but only from the approaches to swamps and from holes made by the footsteps of animals. They are also prohibited from washing their laundry and from washing themselves . . . .”
Other prohibitions include assistance in bearing children, and from reading.
So, this stuff goes back . . . .