The Peripatetic Philosopher shares a life changing trend:

“MEDICINE EMPOWERED!”

PART TWENTY TWO

JAMES RAYMOND FISHER, JR., Ph.D.

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As medicine has been empowered, a peculiar thing has occurred.  The patient has been reduced to data with the focus on the disease not the person.  Moreover, the quest has been to develop new “miracle drugs” to treat essentially lifestyle excesses rather than to address the root causes of the destructive behavior.

On the other hand, medicine has assumed the role of social controller of disease in the macro sense, sometimes with spectacular results in such cases as the cholera epidemic, which was traced to problems in sanitation, while many forms of cancer have been successfully linked to the smoking of cigarettes. 

Public Health, medicine and government have become intimately involved in the personal lives of citizens.  Moreover, The American Cancer Society and the American Medical Association have become equally intrusive successfully suing for smoking bans in most public places.  The false positive to this is that it has not been initiated by the people.

Cholera is no longer a pandemic while cigarette smoking in the United States has been reduced from 42 percent among adults in 1965 to 17 percent in 2014, along with a dramatic decline in cigarette smoking related deaths.  The ends clearly are thought to justify the means. 

What is disturbing about this medical power shift is that in medicine becoming more scientific and remote it has become less personal and humane, but as we shall see, for reason.

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Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land – Part Twenty Three – The Knowledge Keepers & Destiny!

The Peripatetic Philosopher discusses:

Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land

PART TWENTY ONE

“Christian Missionaries on the New Frontier!”

JAMES RAYMOND FISHER, JR., Ph.D.

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Beginning with Columbus in 1492 and continuing for nearly 350 years, Spain conquered and settled most of South America, the Caribbean, and the American Southwest. Portugal soon followed.

After an initial wave of conquistadors—aided by military advantages and infectious diseases that decimated the native populations— the people of the Americas were defeated. This included the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Aztecs, Mayas, and Incas. Spain followed by Portugal organized a huge imperial system to exploit the land, labor, and mineral wealth of the New World.


The Spanish Empire became the largest European empire since ancient Rome, as Spain used the wealth of the Americas to finance nearly endless warfare in Europe, protecting the Americas with a vast navy and powerful army and bringing Roman Catholicism through the missionaries to the New World.

While the Spanish conquistadors destroyed the institutions and artifacts of societies in the Americas of more than a thousand years, the “Soldiers of Christ” or Jesuits along with other Christian missionaries, took possession of their souls.

This was aided and abetted by the European diseases that these interlopers brought with them that would act as a powerful complement to the conquistadors march to victory in the New World.

The European West, in this case, the Spanish Armada, with its cultural sophistication, military prowess, and armed with the stanchion of Christianity, considered the only true faith, felt ordained by God to vanquish the infidels of the New World, rid them of their profane customs, primitive culture and pagan gods. Indeed, it was Spain’s manifest destiny to colonize the New World for crown, country and God. Enter the Christian missionaries.

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Nowhere Man in Nowhere Land – Part Twenty Two – Medicine Empowered!