Thailand-based author Christopher G. Moore usually writes crime fiction.
But in his recent post “Following into the Trap” on his blog cgmoore.com, Moore gives insight into a topic seemingly unrelated to crime fiction: the pharmaceutical industry and how it profits from “improving the rational mind” and “neutralizing irrational thoughts.”
He describes the way doctors have made patients feel as if any mildly unusual thinking constitutes a mental disorder that needs medicating. Moore states that this sort of over-medicating is a political necessity, meant “to control the emotional lives of people.”
Basically, our notions of mental health are all sorts of screwed up, and Big Pharma is largely too blame — they’ve “re-engineered” our idea of normalcy or sanity.
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A sedated population is easier to control. This idea is nothing new, as Aldous Huxley wrote about such a population in “Brave New World.”
Moore goes on to explain that we’re gradually entering the world Huxley and other others have wrote about, Moore included. Moore wrote “Missing in Rangoon,” a crime novel where he explores the “brave new world” of Burma.
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