The Matrix is real!

I’m sure you saw the movie “The Matrix”. Here is a brief synopsis from the Internet if you have not seen the movie:

“In the near future, Computer hacker Neo is contacted by underground freedom fighters who explain
that reality as he understands it is actually a complex computer simulation called the Matrix. Created
by a malevolent Artificial Intelligence, the Matrix hides the truth from humanity, allowing them to live a
convincing, simulated life in 1999 while machines grow and harvest people to use as an ongoing
energy source. ”

Here is Morpheus explaning the Matrix to Neo:

Morpheus:
“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around,
what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are
trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our
enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of
them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.”

So what am I talking about when I’m talking about The Matrix in my blog? I’m talking about an
American society that is driven by debt and greed. I’m talking about a mad dash to consumerism drivin
by the major corporations through everything from newspapers to movies to TV to the Internet. I’m
talking about the Sheeple living their lives by what they perceive their lives are supposed to be which is formed and shaped by the corporations. People have to have the newest I-Phone, they have to have the latest model H-2, they have to have those pair of $60 jeans because they have a pop stars name on the ass or were made by some designer who is incapable of pronouncing their name the way it is spelled.

The Matrix is alive and well!

Most of this society is living in The Matrix which is designed by corporations and force fed them by
television, movies and other forms of advertising. The Sheeple have become the “batteries” that power
The Matrix. They may not be enclosed in capsules as in the movie but nevertheless, they are just as
enslaved
.
The Sheeple lives their lives the way that the corporations want them to. Drink Starbucks, pay $2.00
for a bottle of water that is not that much different than tap water, buy the newest mobile phone to
replace the one that went obsolete 2 days after they bought it 6 months ago. Drink water with vitamins in it. Feel down? Take this pill! Too much energy? Take that pill! Got some syndrome? Take another pill and when all these pills cause side effects, take more pill for the side effects. Over 50% of the people in this country are taking at least one prescription medication for a chronic condition. Why is that? Are we really that sick? Or is the Matrix keeping us medicated into compliance?

I fucked up. I took the red pill. I see what is going on. If only I had taken the blue pill then I might be
able to sit glued to American Idol and Survivor on TV without having the desire to shoot the damn
thing!

We have become a weak country of sheeple whose lives are driven by the programming that is
downloaded into them by The Matrix called corporate America and our government.

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the
story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill -
you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.

Were have all the warriors gone?

Check out this article:

Men’s testosterone levels dropping, study says
Nov. 4, 2006
Special to World Science  

The past two decades have seen a “substantial” and unexplained decrease in American men’s testosterone levels, a study has found.

The downward trend seems to be “due to some undocumented historical or contemporary influence, health-related or environmental,” wrote researchers with the New England

Research Institutes in Watertown, Mass., in the study.

Average levels of the hormone dropped by 1 percent a year, the researchers reported. While a man’s testosterone level typically falls steadily with age, the investigators found what

they argued was a faster decline than could be attributed to aging alone.

END OF ARTICLE

This is only part of the article, read the complete article at this link: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061104_testosterone.htm

Okay so why is this happening? This quote in the article struck me: “due to some undocumented historical or contemporary influence, health-related or environmental,”.  Could it be that

the “Contemporary influence” is our society? Could this be an evolutionary change?

Society seems to go overboard when it needs to fix things. There is no argument that there was gross inequality in our society between the sexes and races but as we usually do,

rather than fixing things to a logical level, we go overboard the other way.

Okay, so what does this have with a drop of testosterone in men you ask? Good question.

Regardless of your religion, or lack thereof, humans have evolved over the centuries. Be it the 5000 or so years that Christians believe humans have been around or the hundreds of

thousands or millions of years that other people believe.

The physical evolution of humans is evident in a number of ways. People that live close to the equator and in areas with large amounts of sun, have more skin pigmentation, people in

cold areas have higher percentages of body fat and paler skin. We have an appendix that seems to be some type of evolutionary left over and the list goes on.

I think that men’s bodies are evolving in the USA and other “civilized” countries because of the pressure society puts on us to be non-aggressive, non-combative, Oprah-nized

metro-sexuals.  The male in this country has been effectively castrated by our society. Little boys are not supposed to be full of energy and fidget during class, they have to sit still even

if we have to drug them to do so. Heaven forbid that they ever fight! Why, we just can’t have that! Bring a play gun to school? Heavens no! Why we won’t even let them draw a gun in

school.

And men in the workplace? Sitting cooped up in a Dilbert cubicle is hardly the role of a “hunter/gather” and don’t dare act aggressive or even hint at how nice a woman looks in the

workplace if you value your job.

Someone once said that if women today want equal rights with men, they are going to have to give up some to be equal. Ain’t it the truth.

I’m going to get hit by charges of being sexist which I’m not. I have no problems with women having the same rights that men do. Not more rights, EQUAL RIGHTS!

Men’s nature is to be the warriors, explore, take risk, hurt and be hurt. That is what we do best. If it was not for our ability and desire to do this, other countries would not have been

explored, we would not have gone to the moon (still not sure why we did however), we would not have won wars (okay, maybe we should not have started them in the first place but if

we are going to start them, we damn well better win them), and a lot of the great strides that have been made in this world would not have been made.

Women in this society have a natural role as men do and yes, women can be just as fierce a warrior as men. If you have not seen it, a great movie was 300 about the Spartans. In once

scene a messenger from the Persian army is trying to negotiate a surrender and the Queen Gorgo of Sparta says something to him he does not like to which he responds:

Messenger: What makes this woman think she can speak among men?
Queen Gorgo: Because only Spartan women give birth to real men.

Clearly a woman that you would not want to piss off.

Yes boys and girls. We are different, both sexes has its strengths and weakness. But if society does not stop this slow castration of the men in this country, we will be left with a bunch

of metro-sexuals that cannot fight, cannot defend their homes and families and a society of unsatisfied women that will be wondering “where have all the REAL men gone”?

The men are still there, they just have lost their balls. Not really lost I suppose, Oprah has a closet full at her mansion.

Randal

Over half of Americans on chronic medicines

The full article is below my comments.

Give me a fucking break! Half of the adults in this country are on drugs? Can anyone, honestly tell me that this is not driven by the drug companies and medical industry? Almost none of these drugs cure anything, they only treat symptoms. A bunch of this people are on drugs for depression, fuck off! Get out and exercise or deal with your depression another way. Remember what happened to the people that took prozac? Google it.

Most of the people in this country are on drugs because they are too fucking fat and lazy to exercise. They treat their bodies like shit and then want a magic pill to cure themselves. I used to work in the medical field, I know what I’m talking about here.

Go to Wal-Mart. Look at all the lard asses in their electronic chairs. What do almost all of them have in common? FAT! They are the last people that need an electronic wheel chair.

Okay, I can help. I have developed a new diet that is sure to work. Call it the Shieldwolf’s diet and I’m given it to you for free! Ready? Here we go….

EAT LESS AND EXERCISE MORE ASSHOLE!

Thats it, like Saint Nike said: “Just do it”.

Oh I know that someone is going to give me the same line of shit that “I just don’t have time”, “I have knee problems”, “My metabolism is slow”. etc, etc. Too bad lard ass. Do what you can with what you have. Stop taking the elevator, take the stairs, park as far away from the door as you can and walk to the store, do something and stop whining.

Randal

Study: Over half of Americans on chronic medicines
By LINDA A. JOHNSON
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 14, 2008; 12:17 AM

 

TRENTON, N.J. — For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows.

The most widely used drugs are those to lower high blood pressure and cholesterol _ problems often linked to heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

The numbers were gathered last year by Medco Health Solutions Inc., which manages prescription benefits for about one in five Americans.

Experts say the data reflect not just worsening public health but better medicines for chronic conditions and more aggressive treatment by doctors. For example, more people are now taking blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering medicines because they need them, said Dr. Daniel W. Jones, president of the American Heart Association.

In addition, there is the pharmaceutical industry’s relentless advertising. With those factors unlikely to change, doctors say the proportion of Americans on chronic medications can only grow.

“Unless we do things to change the way we’re managing health in this country … things will get worse instead of getting better,” predicted Jones, a heart specialist and dean of the University of Mississippi’s medical school.

Americans buy much more medicine per person than any other country. But it was unclear how their prescriptions compare to those of insured people elsewhere. Comparable data were not available for Europe, for instance.

Medco’s data show that last year, 51 percent of American children and adults were taking one or more prescription drugs for a chronic condition, up from 50 percent the previous four years and 47 percent in 2001. Most of the drugs are taken daily, although some are needed less often.

The company examined prescription records from 2001 to 2007 of a representative sample of 2.5 million customers, from newborns to the elderly.

Medication use for chronic problems was seen in all demographic groups:

_ Almost two-thirds of women 20 and older.

_ One in four children and teenagers.

_ 52 percent of adult men.

_ Three out of four people 65 or older.

Among seniors, 28 percent of women and nearly 22 percent of men take five or more medicines regularly.

Karen Walker of Paterson, N.J., takes 18 prescription medicines daily for high blood pressure, diabetes, chronic back and shoulder pain, asthma and the painful muscle disorder fibromyalgia.

“The only way I can do it and keep my sanity … is I use pill boxes” to organize pills for each morning and night, said Walker, 57, a full-time nurse at an HIV clinic. Her 69-year-old husband, Charles, keeps his medicines lined up on his bureau: four pills for arthritis and heart disease, plus two inhalers for lung problems.

Dr. Robert Epstein, chief medical officer at Franklin Lakes, N.J.-based Medco, said he sees both bad news and good in the findings.

“Honestly, a lot of it is related to obesity,” he said. “We’ve become a couch potato culture (and) it’s a lot easier to pop a pill” than to exercise regularly or diet.

On the good side, he said, researchers have turned what used to be fatal diseases into chronic ones, including AIDS, some cancers, hemophilia and sickle-cell disease.

Yet Epstein noted the biggest jump in use of chronic medications was in the 20- to 44-year-old age group _ adults in the prime of life _ where it rose 20 percent over the six years. That was mainly due to more use of drugs for depression, diabetes, asthma, attention-deficit disorder and seizures.

Antidepressant use in particular jumped among teens and working-age women. Doctors attributed that to more stress in daily life and to family doctors, including pediatricians, being more comfortable prescribing newer antidepressants.

Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group said the increased use of medications is partly because the most heavily advertised drugs are for chronic conditions, so most patients will take them for a long time. He also blames doctors for not spending the time to help patients lose weight and make other healthy changes before writing a prescription.

The study highlights a surge in children’s use of medicines to treat weight-related problems and other illnesses previously considered adult problems. Medco estimates about 1.2 million American children now are taking pills for Type 2 diabetes, sleeping troubles and gastrointestinal problems such as heartburn.

“A scarier problem is that body weights are so much higher in children in general, and so we’re going to have larger numbers of adults who develop high blood pressure or abnormal cholesterol or diabetes at an earlier age,” said Jones, of the heart association.

Dr. Richard Gorman, an American Academy of Pediatrics expert on children’s medicines, said more children are taking medicines for “adult conditions” partly because manufacturers now provide pediatric doses, liquid versions or at least information to determine the right amount for a child.

The Medco study found that among boys and girls under age 10, the most widely used medication switched from allergy drugs to asthma medicines between 2001 and 2007. Gorman said that’s because over the last decade, asthma care has gone from treating flare-ups to using inhaled steroids regularly to prevent flare-ups and hospitalizations.