Jed Talks #2: Away from the Things of Man by Jed McKenna

Author:Jed McKenna [McKenna, Jed]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Wisefool Press
Published: 2020-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

The Allopathic Mechanic

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

J. Krishnamurti

The dominant system of medicine today is allopathic. I have very little acquaintance with allopathic medicine, but I used to take my car to an allopathic mechanic.

One day, a warning light came on so I went to the mechanic. He cut the wire to the light. I thought that was weird, but he’s the expert so I paid my fifty bucks and left.

A few weeks later the car started making a clonking sound. I went to the mechanic and he installed a noise dampening system, advised me to play the radio louder, and charged me a few hundred bucks.

The next month, black smoke started pouring out from under the hood making it hard to see. I took it to my trusted mechanic and he installed some new pipes that rerouted the smoke out the back end where I wouldn’t be bothered by it, and charged me a few thousand bucks.

That was okay for a while until the engine gave out and he told me I needed a new one. That cost a lot.

A few weeks later I saw him at the golf club. He had a few drinks in him and spoke candidly. I asked him why we did all the work-around repairs when all the car needed in the first place was a quart of oil.

“Because I’m an allopathic mechanic, and that’s not how we do things,” he said indignantly. “We perform problem management, not prevention, and we sure as hell don’t fix anything. We like it broken, that’s where the real money is.” He went on to explain that if he’d just added a quart of oil when the red light came on, he would have made a dollar, but the series of symptom-centric changes he performed was much better because he made thousands of dollars. He bemoaned the plight of his father, also a mechanic, who spent his life in the upper-lower class striving for lower-middle, while he himself was in upper-middle with an eye toward lower-upper.

“At my expense,” I wanted to object, but he was starting to scare me.

“Allopathic mechanics have risen to a position of total dominance in the field,” he bragged. “All competing modalities have been sidelined as goofy, crazy, and even illegal.” He stroked his expensive putter lovingly as he spoke. “To the victors go the spoils. We’ve made it so that only nuts add oil when the red light comes on. Soon it will be against the law, and then we’ll get the warning light removed altogether. Your way, you add some oil and your car keeps running. Cui bono ? Who benefits? You? That’s a very selfish and anti-social attitude. In the allopathic model, everyone benefits. Your car dies sooner so you have to buy a new one, which is good for the auto and finance industries, but before that, you undergo all sorts of repairs, which benefits the mechanic and the parts industry. See the difference? Your way is good for you, our way is good for everyone.

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