Legalized Poisons:
The New Organization of Life
By Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D.
What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure, He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Hamlet (IV, iv, 33-39)
In a therapeutic culture that depends on the easy availability of contraception and abortion as commodities of life, man’s “godlike reason” “fusts” or grows musty from disuse. Modernity does not regard man as having possession of the “godlike reason” that Hamlet attributes to human nature. Instead of honoring man’s intelligence and “large discourse” to ponder the future and the past, medical advances offer to rescue man and woman from the onus of thinking or the discipline of self-control. Subjecting them to new medical procedures like tubal ligations, vasectomies, an assortment of contraceptives, and various types of abortion, science rescues human beings from their minds and bodies. Instead of governing themselves, man and woman submit to new masters who will exercise absolute control.
By Mitchell Kalpakgian, Ph.D.
What is a man
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure, He that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Hamlet (IV, iv, 33-39)
In a therapeutic culture that depends on the easy availability of contraception and abortion as commodities of life, man’s “godlike reason” “fusts” or grows musty from disuse. Modernity does not regard man as having possession of the “godlike reason” that Hamlet attributes to human nature. Instead of honoring man’s intelligence and “large discourse” to ponder the future and the past, medical advances offer to rescue man and woman from the onus of thinking or the discipline of self-control. Subjecting them to new medical procedures like tubal ligations, vasectomies, an assortment of contraceptives, and various types of abortion, science rescues human beings from their minds and bodies. Instead of governing themselves, man and woman submit to new masters who will exercise absolute control.
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