A Drug For Every Ill

"What you have to realize is that you've been preconditioned not only by the system, by your parents, by schooling. […] you have been preconditioned to accept what they tell you, and they're the experts, and you'll do it.

"E.g., when you go to see a doctor, no matter where you are in the world, whether it's Europe or the United States, if you don't get a prescription for it, you feel like, 'well, this was a waste of time.' That idea comes from the preconditioning you got.

"When you begin to realize that the person who really preconditions everything in medicine, who gave doctors that idea, who doctors gave the patient the idea, that was big pharma. That started at the turn of the 20th century. That started with the robber barons in the United States who basically had one of their oil trusts broken up. And then from the breakup, started the idea of big pharma, which started in New Jersey.

"They started to use industrial chemicals to place in pharmaceuticals. […]

"They actually came up with a guy named Flexner to come up with a report. And in the report says this is how we're going to fix schools. The idea of the Rockefeller Foundation at that time is if we can change the curriculum, we can change the culture of medicine away from vitalism towards reductionism. […] What is the single key moment that solidified that the Rockefellers would win?

"It was actually Alexander Fleming discovering penicillin. When penicillin comes out it's truly a miracle drug. It does things that no other drug's ever done. And what does that do?

"It kind of pushes everybody to the belief that there's a drug for every ill. And that was reinforced post-war America, post-war Europe. It was reinforced everywhere in the world." —Dr. Jack Kruse on the Longevity & Lifestyle podcast @ 11:54 – 14:49 https://youtu.be/tha7IPtUTAU&t=714