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Subscribe to encounter ideas to counter dysfunctional mainstream narratives. Sociologist Joseph Monane said it best in his 1968 classic, The Sociology of Human Systems, “Power, not utility, determines what happens in social systems. In the last 18 years I have written three books and numerous columns and blog posts addressing the ways in which power from the top is harmful to individuals at the bottom. Whether the topic is mental illness, cancer, COVID-19, this theme runs throughout my writing. I am attracted to Substack because it allows for freedom of expression and ideas that are outside of the mainstream. When the Substacks and the Rumbles of the World replace the aging unresponsive corporate dominated media, perhaps system-wide change will be possible. I am not holding my breath. I have yet to see a prominent politician or a major media figure admit the the COVID-19 vaccines were poorly conceptualized and are doing more harm than good. They know where their bread is buttered.
While researching and writing three books on the need for a biologically based view of “mental” illness I found many ways that ordinary folks are not being well served by the professionals who are supposed to be helping them. Some of the topics I have covered in my books include obsolete diagnostic systems, resistance of health care professionals to attend to biology of “mental” illness, the harmful influences from GMO’s and electrical magnetic frequencies (EMFs). If you are frustrated by the lack of responsiveness of the professional class in an area of concern to you, you may find this blog to be useful. Recently I have shifted my focus to COVID-19. Plumbing the depths of corruption, greed, group think, dishonesty, regardless of the topic, is a full time job.
Even though I wrote my first book, Too Good to Be True? Nutrients Quiet the Unquiet Brain, 18 years ago, the issues raised in that book and subsequent ones are as timely now as they were the day they were published. I believe that I was the first to use the phrase “Beyond Mental Illness” for my third book. There have been subsequent copycat titles, but without the kind of paradigm shift about which I wrote. On the positive side, there is a younger class of health care professionals who practice personalized health care using biological testing to support precise interventions for nutritional imbalances, infections and toxins in their patients. However, these are still considered outside the mainstream. They say it took a generational change for surgeons to offer their cancer patients lumpectomies instead of the usual disfiguring breast surgery. Hopefully, using the same ecosystem exploited by a captured media, the writers of Substack and Parler can use these same technologies to accelerate much needed changes in our health care system.
I am the a retired Air Force Lt Col and LCSW, having worked in the Air Force, California Department of Social Services, and Nevada County Behavioral Health. While I have successfully navigated these bureaucracies, my work experiences have taught me the harmful effects of what sociologists call system determinism. I have repeatedly seen these institutions fail to address human needs and have written to try to address some of these unmet needs. COVID-19 is just the latest example.
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