Jpinion II

Jpinions II -      America under Anesthesia                04.08.08


Please take the following into consideration if you can: America is under anesthesia. It has been this way for quite some time now and the longer we allow this to take place; the more detrimental it will be to the brain that is human growth, the brain that is our country.

Middle-America, I am not suffering from the horrible ailments of the disease known simply as A.D.D. My brain does not need to be domesticated. When my attention diverts to an imaginary prairie, I write it down to save it for later. I do not block-out the sun with a pill-induced iron curtain of sedation, while I color on the floor. The same, however, cannot be said for fifty-percent of America’s youth, because fifty-percent of America’s youth apparently has Attention Deficit Disorder. I know this not because I read it, although ADDinschools.com brags of these figures. I know this first-hand because I spent my entire adolescence traveling around this plague. So gander, if you will, down this path with me as I detail to you the terror of a docile nation.

Austin, who suffers from a severe case of ADHD, is eleven years old. He attends McKinley Elementary school and everyday he takes adderol for his disease. Austin’s mom works during the daytime and takes care of Austin and his two sisters at nighttime. One evening Austin’s mother received a phone call from Ms. Delaney, a teacher at Austin’s school. The teacher informed her that Austin interrupts the classroom with excessive talking. Austin’s mother replied that Austin would be promptly disciplined. The teacher, however, explained that the problem was not disciplinary, but more behavioral and mental.

She communicated that Austin was not just a child behaving in the way that children often do, but that he suffered from an illness. Austin’s mother was alarmed, "She made it seem as if Austin had a learning disability [and] she recommended that [Austin] be prescribed Adderol," a pill ingested daily that regulates creativity. The problem is that ADD does not exist, it's meerly a perception in the reality of the afflicted and surrounding parties. It is breeded and allowed to manifest. So, basically in the year 2008 it is not a child’s lack of discipline that needs adjusting, and it is not the teacher’s lesson plan that needs to be changed to stimulate the class; no, it’s the children's minds themselves that need to be changed via prescription drugs.

This is an example of impatient teachers with influence suggesting to domestic-thinking parents that their child is flawed. So the DT-parents flock to their doctors and demand or request that their children be prescribed some sort of ADD medication. The doctor, who is unbiased to what isn’t outright detrimental, fulfills the parents’ request happily. So the child becomes docile and manageable, at the cost of his creativity and mental freedom, and the teacher’s wish is granted- an ideal classroom. The parents aren’t under any more pressure from the teacher because of a disruptive child and everybody who interacts with the victim is happy. The typical domestic-thinker’s way to justify that is ’because the teacher spends the majority of the day with my child I’m sure that she knows what’s best for him in these instances.’ and it’s as simple as that. It was a massive snowball-effect and with more and more people jumping on the bandwagon, if you were a parent the easier it became to get assimilated into the ADHD-avalanche.

If Adderol’s effect was to take-away all thoughts except for the absolute apparent and to charge the removed-creativity to unleash it at a later time, I would support it, but that’s not even close to what Adderol does. Yes, it does take-away all thoughts focused on anything but the absolute apparent, this is true. Adderol does not fix the fictitious characterization of any child’s inability to contain the eruption of his ability to produce creative thoughts, known simply as ADD; it merely prevents it from happening whatsoever.

Adderol’s purpose is simply to stop me from writing this column, to stop me from interacting with my environment, the world, and to make me docile and manageable so the world can interact with me. To a thinker, it’s as simple as I choose to think. I choose to be handled, but not drugged. Children, however do not have that choice. They can’t even conceive the ramifications of losing years of their childhood creativity. They never pondered on the likelihood of another dependence on a similar drug, like Xanax- the adderol for adults. Their choices are made by their parents who are in the fog of domestic-thinking.

The problem is saddening, and maddening and frightening. There will be no great painters or musicians or talented writers or dancers if all of the minds of the world are kept in the dark, if their creativity is continuously being suppressed. Yearly, generation after generation of drones materialize, with each one getting separated further and further from the God-given abilities granted to them at birth. With each passing generation, even more minds get normalized, and less and less creativity escapes. That's why people say, "The Arts are dying." The arts are not dying, our muses just got silenced, they just can't make it through. So the truly creative ones, the pure-minded ones, seem even more creative now and seem even more intelligent, when really it’s just a thickening cloud of dense anti-thought preventing the other people from ever thinking clearly. It’s time for use to start trekking through this mud and fan out this fog. America please, allow your creative-geniuses to thrive for the sake of mankind at least.

JlB