corporations decide
By Jerome Berglund
who’s sane, and the pharmacies
what medicine we need
Where vested interests and profit motives exist, there is a direct incentive to treat indefinitely rather than cure.
When those deciding how best to combat symptoms have a direct stake in the sales of pharmaceuticals for example – or those negotiating peace the sale of weapons for warfare similarly – it is a serious concern and given that, the worst sort of perversion of medicine and harming of patients will invariably occur indefinitely. Just so with a system predicated upon, rewarding of greed, consumption, predation, which will quite reasonably in self-preservation deem heretical and absurd any alternative to the various overt madnesses its adjudicators represent, condone, and perpetuate.
Further reading:
Many Authors of Psychiatry Bible have Industry Ties, New Scientist: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21580-many-authors-of-psychiatry-bible-have-industry-ties/
Author bio:
Jerome Berglund, recently nominated for the 2022 Touchstone awards, graduated from USC’s film program, worked in the entertainment industry before returning to the midwest where he has been employed as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Jerome has exhibited many haiku, senryu and haiga online and in print, most recently in the Asahi Shimbun, Bear Creek Haiku, Bamboo Hut, Cold Moon Journal, Daily Haiga, Failed Haiku, Haiku Dialogue, Scarlet Dragonfly, Under the Basho, and the Zen Space. You can follow him on Twitter @BerglundJerome and find more of his poetry here: https://flowersunmedia.wixsite.com/jbphotography/post/haiku-senryu-and-haiga-publications
Check out more sciku from Jerome here: ‘Environmental Charlie Browns’, ‘Illusion’, ‘Civil Disobedience’ and ‘Exploitation in Micro and Macro’.