I've seen the charge that Ritalin and other drugs are being widely misprescribed for young people and have produced incidents like the Columbine shootings. I hope this is being looked at very hard but I haven't undertaken it myself.
The way I think of it, the feminization of the public schools over the past few decades has resulted in a “denaturing” of young boys, which is fully aided and abetted by the psychiatric and pharmaceutical communities, to their great respective profit.
I've also heard there's something in much of our food tinkering with the hormonal hardware. That's another thing I hope is being looked into, etc. etc.
I need not remind you that it is the “hardware approach” to the human psyche that enables this sort of thing.
As a former software guy, I know you can't fix a software bug in the hardware. The reverse is true as well.
2,000. Prime!
Okay. If you say so, VR. (Though I think you're just playing with me here.)
But if what you describe is actually so, then the problem definitely needs to be looked into.
Still I haven't before now exactly heard this new (for me anyway) rumor of a threat to human welfare, from a source abetting the systemic derangement of human hormones, transmitted via the food supply. To me, off the top of my head, that's right up there with space aliens landing in my backyard last night, who subsequently conducted detailed experiments on my pet cat.
In any case, I haven't at all studied this "hormonal" attack via the food supply (trained on young people???). In fact, I never heard of it before today.
Just goes to show: So little time, and yet so much to do....
Anyhoot, I really resonated to this statement: "I know you can't fix a software bug in the hardware. The reverse is true as well."
Sounds about right to me.
Thanks so much for writing, VR!