It’d be a pretty ingenuous way of suppressing discontent, if it were intentional.

I strongly suspect that future generations are going to look at our casual and unthinking use of estrogen-like compounds in our industrial operations as being the equivalent–And, that they’re going to look at what we’re doing with the brain chemistry of our mentally ill as being tantamount to the trepanning and bizarre ideas of Medieval medicine regarding humours and other such-like fantasies.

None of this sh*t strikes me as being well-advised; we just don’t know enough. I look at the current behavior patterns I observe in young males everywhere, and the effeminacy/dysfunction I see in what a lot of them are doing strikes me as possibly being hormone-related. Likewise, the females; they’re having their natural levels of testosterone suppressed by all the estrogen-like compounds, and are fudging up their natural balances between the two yin/yang sides of the equation, and that’s where a lot of the dysfunction we see around us derives from.

Give it a few generations, and I bet we start to see studies proving that all out. What to do about it? No idea, but I think production and use of a lot of these compounds needs to be curtailed severely.

Have him sign an agreement to the effect to keep the lawyers at bay.

The free-form open-area experiment methodology that they seem to be so fond of? I’m not too happy with that crap, especially since they use medical privacy laws to keep everyone around them from knowing what’s going on.

You want to screw with brain chemistry, you need to be doing it under controlled medical supervision, not out in the public sphere.

I’ve known a few people who ought to have been locked up, but society lacks the will to lock them up. All in all, I prefer the authorities err on the side of civil liberties rather than err on the other side. But they do err.

I’ve known people with issues tell me there should be more mental health care. When I press for details, it turns out they mean more of the same. More drugs, at lower cost. No one has any better ideas.

Human, all too human.

I do not trust the level of knowledge we’re at with anything as delicate as a human mind. We just don’t know enough, and the fact that a lot of these experimenters think they do is mind-bogglingly frightening. It’s not just that they’re screwing around with things they don’t understand, it’s that they’re actively telling people that they do know what the hell they’re doing. Which they don’t.

The way that a lot of this “cutting-edge research” winds up being implemented ought to give us pause; out in the real world, where “medical professionals” are prescribing these psychoactive substances, it’s usually something like “OK, here’s a prescription for 3mg of X, try it for three weeks, then come back and we’ll evaluate…”. Trouble is, the doctors aren’t out actually observing the actual real-world effects of the drugs, they’re relying on the patient self-reporting–And, that patient is the one on the drugs!! Nobody goes out to ask peers/managers/spouses if they’ve seen any changes in behavior, or what those might have been.

Frankly, I think that anyone prescribed psychoactives of any kind ought to be in a residential program with full-time observation by professionals. The way they do it now, for “therapeutic purposes” is completely bug-f*ckingly insane. I’ve watched guys I worked with in the Army go on this inexplicable hell-ride on a roller-coaster of emotional and cognitional changes, only to later discover that my “disciplinary problem” had its roots in some quack with a white jacket conducting free-form biochemical experiments on them.

I remain highly dubious of the entire proposition, and would not under any circumstance suggest that it’s either ethical or wise to inflict these “cures” on the general public the way they are. The really frightening thing is when you go into the literature and research the crap they’re using, and you find that most of it is highly suspect and with really abysmal numbers behind it all.

Prohibition tried to save people from themselves. That didn’t turn out so well.