Opus 2012-11, Plow and Crown: The Opiate of the People Strikes Again

I am angry.  Another one of my students has fallen victim to the drug culture.  I am not sure of the name of the drug but I know it is not heroin, cocaine or marijuana.  It is not an illegal drug although I think it is an immoral drug.  It is one of those drugs that is handed out by weary adults to children they don’t want to deal with anymore, the ones that are supposed to deal with a modern discovery called ADD.  There is more than one, the best known is Ritalin. 

In case you live in a cave or took the drug yourself, ADD stands for Attention Deficit Disorder.  A variation of it is ADHD which means Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.  The difference is the the second group tend to be discipline problems where the first group have only learned to be selectively forgetful.  In our modern culture, where the government and experts are here to help you, we are supposed to have totally worry free lives.  Since man is the peak of evolution and sin does not exist there is a cure for everything.  Just ask the Experts.  One of the things that can be cured is ADD or as it used to be called, LBS, Little Boy Syndrome.  It used to be cured by maturity, example and consistent discipline which taught the little boy that there were consequences for forgetting to take out the trash.  Civilization survived.  Today we have little maturity, poor examples and “discipline” is a dirty word. 

Another thing we are taught the experts can cure is ADHD, or as it used to be called, LODS, Lack of Discipline Syndrome.  It used to be cured by the “tune of the hickory stick.”  Civilization survived.

How does this have anything to do with the Plow and Crown?  Since the beginning of time the elites have controlled by masses by the use of drugs.  In more primitive cultures the drug of choice was alcohol.  You find this in the book of Proverbs.

(Proverbs 31:6-7 KJV)  Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.  Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

We know that Marx talked about religion being the opiate of the people.  He must have know the concept of the crown trying to keep people off the streets and behind the plows.  It can be done in many ways, all of which are regulated by the elites.  We have the obvious use of drugs and alcohol.  We have TV and electronic entertainments.  We have public school.  All of these reduce the level of intelligence and limit options.  All are controlled by the people who want to limit your liberty.

Instead of dealing with children in school, we drug them.  We have professional educators, progressive politicians and harried health care providers.  They all feel like the easiest way out is to slip a few chemicals into the bodies of our young people.  What are the long term consequences?  No one really knows but the early results are not promising.

Today it is questionable if civilization will survive.

My heart goes out to the young student that is the catalyst in my anger.  He was never a problem, just lazy and knowing how to work the system.  He knew the least he had to do to get by and that is all he did.  I have noticed no sudden sense of responsibility in him.  He still doesn’t bring his book to class.  He was never a discipline problem and that has not changed.  But his mother can now blame a “condition” and his doctor has the mother off his back. 

My heart cries out but there is nothing I can do.

homo unius libri