GETTING WELL

There are few things in our modern culture on all media as common as medicine commercials. There is a commercial for beer then a medicine commercial, for pizza, then medicine, for tacos, then medicine, for … parts of poor little dead chickens, then medicine, for hamburgers then another medicine commercial, cars…same, phones…same, insurance and then medicine…and then lawyers…and more medicine commercials. Is there an order to this?

Maybe the order is that whatever we are doing is making us sick and getting well is now to think medicine rather than prevention. Of course there is another consideration. The only products that can afford to advertise at the highest level are basically the ones I mentioned. We might add banks, building suppliers, and a few others. But the crazy expensive thing is that for about every product being peddled there is a medicine commercial just after it. The cost must be a staggering number. It only means that the pharmaceutical companies have more money than everyone else. Something advertised to make me well is starting to make sick.

Or, you might have hair on your arms and hands and head like the Geico Caveman… I suppose there is a medicine to deal with that… if a person so desired.

I’m headed over to the other side of the Pond to have some Cuban Coffee and Roz’s Peanut Brittle and try to design a better Pill Organizer. The egg carton I have been using is just too clumsy to use day after day.

“It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are sick. I didn’t come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Jesus