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Can Medicine be dissociated from Humanism?
Ideas in words suggest that this can not be so.
MedWord - "Word Play"
NARCOSIS NARCOTIC NARCISSISM FLOWER
In Ukrainian NARKOSA = anesthetic
NARKOMAN addict to narcotics
Greek NARKE NUMB note DUMB
TORPOR
NARKISOS FLOWER
NARKISSOS, also known as NARCISSUS, is the subject
of various versions of a tragic story of profound
love and death. NEMESIS subjected his CORPSE to
METAMORPHOSIS and created a FLOWER we call
NARCISSUS. Ever since, poets made this story
FLOURISH.
Derivative ideas from the above are found
in: METAbolism METAphysis MORPHOGENesis MORPHeus
MORPHine CORPs CORPse inCORPorate CORPoration
FLOWER FLOWERING FLORIDA
The links of NARCISSUS to NARCOTIC arise from
the property of many FLOWERS to alter our
SENSES, SANITY, MIND, REASON ...
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The play with words that follows is laborious
but I will try to simplify ...
Love can become "love sickness" and like a
narcotic, become NUMBing. (DUMB)
NARCOTIC effects can result from "things" like
drugs or abstractions like speeches, poems,
music ... and induce STUPOR and even STUPIDity
by obscuring mental LUCIDITY and DIM the WIT of
a victim who may justify the label DIM WIT ...
in other words, the IDIOm of NARCOMANIA has the
power to block IDEAS and engender IDIOcy.
NARCOTICS can be LETHAL, a fact well known to
the ancients. The Goddess LETHE was fond of
HADES where she liked to visit a beautiful meadow
in Elysium dedicated to OBLIVIOUS people resting
in OBLIVION. This meadow, known as ASPHODELUS,
was free from deLAPIDAdated LAPIDAS made by
ancient LAPIDAries and free from CEMENT artifacts
effacing modern CEMETERIES. Instead, the
resplendescent meadow was covered with splendid
flowers we know as daffodil, snow drop, amaryllis
and of course, NARCISSUS. Modern Botanists place
these flowers in the ASPHODELINE group and mention
them as a source of NUMBING and "DUMBING" agents.
Probably Goddess FLORA is pleased to see modern
experts popularize the idea that NARCOTIC drugs
are "RECREATIONAL". I doubt that this EUphemism
has roots in the idea that the etiology of
NARCOMANIA has to do with "boredom", but who
knows? Perhaps NARCOTICS can "recreate" dreams
usurped by reality and can boost. NARCOLEPTICS
like MORPHINE induce dreams worthy of MORPHEUS,
"the dream shaper" and may refresh a soul with
fantasies denied by reality ... love, family,
community, and most of all, hope.
One avenue to avoid BLAMe and BLEMishes is
through ilLOGical neoLOGisms crafted by
metaMORPHosis of good words into EUphemisms.
Much energy is expended to understand
"drugs and crime". Juvenile criminals are
EUphemistically called "confrontational"
"conflicted" ... and NARCOMANIA is BLAMed
on family, school, and societal BLEMishes. If
all else fails, "medicalizing" NARCOMANIA
with a "disease" label may do the trick.
Perhaps such proclivities stem from homocentric
humanist ideoLOGy or theoLOGy that assumes
that humans have perfect natures and that its
flaws are due to neglect by parents, society ...
and more recently genes.
A counterpoint is offered by scientists who
"culture" human cells with ease but are aware
that to metaMORPHose a NARCISSISTIC infant or
an egocentric youth into a social being requires
another sort of "culture".
The metaphor in MORPHine MORPHeus includes his
twin brother THANATOS who links reversible dreams
with deadly OBLIVION. Juveniles prone to experiment
with NARCOTICS and may underestimate the risks of
THANATOPHORIC NARCOLEPSY leading to an encounter
with LETHAL LETHE and a memorial in the ASPHODELINE
meadow.
Be this as it may, we must go on living and
try to remain gay, oops! I beg your pardon! I
forgot that this is one of those "politically
correct" EUphemisms conFISCated and cataLOGed
by FISCal agents for matters related to altered
sexual inclinations. Ooops!, again, "altered"
may also be "incorrect" or at least be
perceived as "insensitive" - should I say
"challenged" instead?
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