Month: November 2018

I’m fascinated by the forces that manufacture concepts like this.

It’s amazing that it’s actually possible for some to not realize that the very existence of multicellular life, and the unmitigated primacy of cooperation and language itself as a survival trait, entirely refutes the pro-slavery world view implied by reverence for drudgery and the exploitative trade imbalance called “profit.”

It’s almost like blindsight, minus the logical consistency.

I wish Orwell had presented the concept of doublethink differently such that it was more socially obvious in cases like this.

People genuinely don’t realize it’s inherently conflicted. (And there are so many t makes one wonder how democracy itself can be valid when such a small a handful of opinion makers can be so effective.)

That entire notion of labor’s purpose exists to enable the very thing it in the next breath so bitterly attacks as “laziness.” Or should I say Sloth? In another era it’d be the same arguments on behalf of the clergy or the crown.

It’s the same as it has been. A PR firm selling a world view to the masses that keeps them working, expressly so that the owners of the firm and its (royal) clients won’t have to.

But that’s all old news. More recently I am genuinely curious how the narrative is going to evolve when it finds itself in a context where it can no longer (cogently at least) blame unemployment on some imaginary and arbitrarily defined character flaw.

Picture an island with 10 people but only two jobs thanks to innovation. Would they still try to spin the resulting 80% unemployment rate as due to “laziness?”

I mean if demand for leisure/freedom (“laziness/sloth”) is a character flaw (unless you’re rich?) then it follows that work itself is an axiomatic virtue doesn’t it? So without needed tasks, would they invent superfluous time consuming painful ones for the other 80% of the island? (Would simply flogging them be acceptable instead for the sin of having free time?)

Would they be asked to invent such tasks or do the flogging themselves “voluntarily” on pain of avoiding worse social punishment for being “too lazy to find a job?”

Only asking conceptually. Asking my back brain really. After all, few are rational agents in this. Most answers given would just be repetition of some PR firm like always. I’m better off waiting for a press release than asking any one member of the party.

You ever notice how they dare not make any degree of laziness a mental disability? Like how it HAS to stay forever in the realm of shameful character traits. Have you ever wondered why it is that seemingly all other affective traits carried to some socially damning pathological extreme can be parsed as mental illness except the desire to evade labor?

TLDR: Take Bile Pills with meals. This post is a modified version of my entirely positive review of a specific brand of bile acid caplets.

Several years ago, I’m not even sure how many, I developed chronic cholecystitis. The negative impact on my life had been hard to articulate. I had no insurance. I had no recourse but to completely wrap my eating choices around what would not cause me excruciating pain. (Rice became a dear and lifelong friend.) The ER simply gives you pain meds and sends you home, everything else gets treated like recreational surgery. Thus I was stuck with truly unfair levels of fear and pain.

I came to literally fear and obsess over food. Then came Obamacare and finally surgery was possible for a serf like me. But that too terrified me due to potential complications and the one way nature of the solution. My aunt for example got the surgery and it did not cure her symptoms and wished she could undo the procedure.

I searched for alternate treatments and read every wiki relevant to the organ and its products. This is where I discovered that bile is 97% water, and the rest bile salts. I searched and hoped humanity would sell me these salts because I figured if I preload my system with the salts my need to make my own bile would be diminished and as a result I would not get attacks.

This. Proved. True.

Over the past several days (at the time of the original review) I have thoroughly tested my body with foods I know for a fact to be fool proof triggers for gal attacks. Not only do I feel no pain in the organ, I feel no tension, or anything else. It is as if the organ has been completely repaired.

I am metabolizing my food better. It takes less to fill me and I have more energy. And ZERO pain!

One tablet before any intake that I know comes with fat and I am so far 100% certain to not have gal tension, much less an ache or a full blown attack.

I’m confident with proper diet this substance will allow my gal bladder to recover. But even if it doesn’t, my situation is wildly improved.

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Update: Three months in, still no attacks. I’ve found it’s good to try and take it in the middle of the meal. It still works either way but if you take it early you can get cramping etc similar to gastric dumping, and if you take it at the end you’ll taste it and might still get tension.

I wish I could have twice as many caplets at half the volume for the same price. Still, I’d give ten stars if I could. I can eat again.

Update 2015-06-28 0105 AM: Six months in and things are even better than before. By taking the load off my gal bladder it would appear I’m allowing it to heal and shrinking my own stones. I now have to buy the salts even less frequently as my normal tolerance for foods return. Still very much a 10 star product in my view, and a clear reason for me to never fully trust or rely the FDA and medical establishment again. Why? Because finding/deducing this cure myself and on amazon and not because of a doctor’s advice speaks volumes about how badly the system is broken.

I take this personally because this is a life changing substance for me and I can’t possibly be alone. It literally saved an organ, and I suspect if it were more widely known lives would be saved because sometimes people die during gal bladder removal surgery, and that surgery might have been avoided by simply taking one of these 22cent caplets with every extremely fatty meal.

My required intake has dropped significantly because the load taken off my organs has it would seem allowed them to recover to a noticeable degree. I only really need one every other day on average now. It is hard to articulate the degree of positive impact this has had on my life.

The risks of gal bladder surgery are real and serious. And there’s no going back once it’s done. Doctors should be recommending this before surgery, and only considering surgery if this doesn’t work or something.

Update 2016-01-16 0929 AM: I suspect this will be my last update because things are unchanged and that is magnificent. I don’t get gal aches anymore unless I truly over indulge. And if I do get them I can just take one of these and basically give it a little time. This stuff changed my life. I just can’t say enough good things.