Posted by sigismund on September 28, 2011, at 14:41:21
In reply to Re: Bitter substances » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on September 28, 2011, at 12:39:24
Back then I mocked that Norman Rockwell world I knew from growing up in a similar one, but I don't feel like that now.
I think instead 'These people had MORPHINE available OTC and they didn't radically abuse it, they had HEROIN available in unit doses for HANGOVERS, now they are talking about banning Seroquel in jails.'
Human society has always had its awful aspects. We went through a very positive time here in the late 70s where the government of Malcolm Fraser (who famously lost his trousers in New Orleans) let in a quarter of a million (I think) Vietnamese refugees after the end of the war there. No attempt was made by either party to turn this into a nightmare from which they would save us. That is inconceivable now. Nothing good will come of it. It's all spin and focus groups and fear. The lies are so deep and the positioning to cast blame on the other so complex you have difficulty working the truth out about anything.
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