“And have gone from a society that worried about what we were going to eat....”
That’s the key right there. It used to be, that everyone had to work in order to live, so they had a lot to do.
What happens when a society gets too rich?
I read just a while back (and I can’t remember where I read it) that Obama had some measure passed or executive order signed that allowed clinics to increase their opioid output. And just after that the opioid problem escalated. I don’t know where I read it. Maybe Obozo was getting things ready for his healthcare “solution.”
Not to be confused with vitamin K2, available in your local supplement store.
And that’s just the MSM, J Street and H-Wood. Who knows how badly off the rest of us are?
I am convinced that the hard life faced by Americans living up until the early part of the 1900s weeded out the weaklings, those unable to cope. Those who depended on drugging themselves either by alcohol or drugs simply to get through the day. Since about the 60s, it seems to me that we’ve had many more people addicted to drugs, many more people who must face that thing called “life”—with all its joys, hardships, sorrows—anesthetized. Their only hope in life is that next dose of their drug of choice. Never has it been so apparent and in such great numbers as today. I shudder at the number of people overdosing and keeling over. But I consider them to be weaklings who simply are not up to the challenges of modern life. Would they have been able to withstand blazing new trails in the West? Surviving a concentration camp? It is very sad to see this contemporary evolution of those who can cope and those who can only cope by artificial means, i.e. drugs.