It's my day off from the job that pays the bills. I love this work yet I have tormented mixed feelings over it at times. During the last few minutes I was at work yesterday, I was completing a required inservice in the most ill-suited environment for learning anything. There was this cacophony of alarm sounds, one persistent one indicating dangerously high water heater temperature. This problem it seems cannot be fixed for now. Nearby was one of our managers lamenting over all the people who have called off sick this weekend, implying that most if not all of the staff calling in were mallingering.
My heart cries out because I know that most of these workers are giving 110%. They are perennially chewed up and spit out by a system that shamelessly over-utilizes the business model of fear and loathing to motivate its workers. It is a profoundly poetic manifestation of the extremes we have reached in today's materialistic society. It is no longer left-brain heavy; it is left-brain-exclusive. And in healthcare its goals are really not about supporting, encouraging, enriching or nurturing. Perhaps superficially, maybe. I see these right-brain/holistic ideals used as selling points to lure people in. Yet scratch the surface even a micron, and its all about slash, burn and poison. Nurse Ratched is allopathic medicine's posterchild, and all who emulate her quickly move up the corporate ladder. Fascist Medicine's adherents routinely employ guilt, shame, other emotional and mental trauma that lead to employees feeling as if they must sacrifice more and more and more, until they are predictably exhausted and sick. One example is that many are routinely scheduled for double shifts (16 hour workdays) or 12-hour shifts without their consent. I want to vomit every time I hear managers wax over how to improve recruitment and retention. They waste everybody's time in meetings where they debate over whether more pizza parties or Starbucks gift cards will fix their problems. After attending one of these meetings and getting blank looks and silence upon encouraging the panel to consider the bottom rung of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, I stopped taking time out of my own precious uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep to come into work and sit in on this nonsense. Perhaps one day they'll get it. It's better to teach by example, I think. I frequently encourage my aides and colleagues to set firm boudaries with management, eat organic real food not processed until poisonous, to exercise, get adequate rest, tend to other routine hygienic needs, spend time in positive recreational pursuits, all these things that for thousands of years (at least until lately as they've been replaced by "GET YOUR VACCINE TODAY!!!") have been taught by the healthcare authorities. Sometimes I feel like I am surrounded by cult members. Plainly stated, the corporate culture and business model of modern allopathic healthcare, which boils down to the motto of "The Beatings Will Continue until Morale Improves", is a miserable failure. And I'm giving it an
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However, having said all that, I need to stress that I am giving The System, not the 99% of regular people brainwashed by it, the "F". My anger, my exasperated frustration is levied at a system and the sociopathic "elites" which devalue humanity, the environment and Life itself, putting profit above everything in a most insane way, the usual corporate way, leaning towards ends-justifies-the-means practices and other degenerative or regressive behaviors in order to make gluttonously wealthy executives even more morbidly gluttonously wealthy. This is what happened in Nazi Germany, and it is what is happening to America, without a doubt, period. Explore an article on the 10 steps from democracy to dictatorship where it is clearly delineated, and you might begin to understand how relatively good people are tricked into harming others and ultimately themselves in the name of some psychotic rendering of "the greater good". Tending to economics is necessary, even utilizing a good kick in the ass (motivation by fear and loathing, aka "bad cop" tactics) need to be utilized at times. Like now. Like in explaining these heavy, "depressing" truths; "your kind of 'heavy'," my Aunt Gail would say before she passed from pneumonia, despite or perhaps because she made sure to get vaccinated every year.
The truth hurts, they say, but it hurts most when truth is put on the shelf, completely or nearly out of sight and mind where its potential energy menaces like a guillotine blade. Most of the people serving the system in various capacities (including myself, technically as an employee working inside a typical nursing home) are miserable participants of a system entrenched in fear and loathing--fear of losing job, home, health, and what little freedoms that still remain. The guillotine looms over us all until we all collectively unite to recognize it, expose it and dismantle it.
As I conclude this, my neighbor texts, informing me of another close neighbor whose young daughter mysteriously ended up with a dangerously enlarged heart and blood clots in her lungs. Like the 1 in 45 children now diagnosed with autism or the entire alarming picture other exponentially skyrocketing diseases like diabetes and asthma, I am continually reminded of the brutal warfare being waged upon humanity by a small handful of inbred sociopathic predators who call themselves elite, wearing this stolen valor and wielding a very large scythe after having their way with the planet and the masses. While we have long ago reached Malcomb Gladwell's Tipping Point, I hope and pray we get a f%#!ng avalanche soon, a true awakening of 60% or more of the masses who are tired of politely ignoring the belligerent, child-molesting drunk at our family reunion party. If he cannot be contained, perhaps somebody needs to take Uncle Chester out behind the woodshed once and for all, with the same extreme prejudice utilized on those who've been falsely accused of threatening national security.
Meanwhile, I will be working on posting the rest of the Thrive webinar, as it addresses more peaceful ways in which we can all work together to dismantle this Beast System.
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