Blocking Yong
11 Apr 2009, 06:09 PM Filed in:
Navel Gazing
When the goats are young kids, they
are exuberant and energetic. They run to and fro, leap in the air,
and frolic. They dive into milk bottle or follow a butterfly
passionately, then run away distracted by the next thing that comes
along. As they get older, this type of life vitality decreases
gradually but continuously, and finally, a very old goat moves more
slowly and deliberately and is not interested in running to and
fro, except as necessary to escape a predator.
Obviously the same process is seen in other animals and in humans. In Chinese Medicine, the life energy chi can be very strong even when one is an old person. There is also the youthful energy yong, which decreases with age as part of the natural life cycle. It's not just in China though, every culture in the history of the world is aware that children are more wildly energetic, and easily distracted, than old people.
Until now. In our culture, children being themselves is now a diagnosable disease called ADHD. That children are not as serious and focussed as adults is seen as a medical condition which is treated using powerful amphetamines, which are known to cause irreversible brain damage and permanent, negative, behavioral changes in everyone, especially children whose brains are still growing.
In China, no one would try to block the yong that is appropriate for youth because it is seen as in balance for that time in life. If you did block it, Chinese medicine, thousands of years old, predicts the results would be symptoms of premature aging. And what do we see in amphetamine users? Premature aging. We've all seen the booking photo sequences that show the progression that starts with an attractive young woman, and after 3 or 4 years of amphetamine abuse, she is a wrinkled, toothless, worn out old hag.
Apparently, that is what America wants for many of its children. A short, brain damaged life. A futile attempt to contain yong.
But why? Is the profit of the pharmaceutical industry so important that we must sacrifice our very children to it?
Obviously the same process is seen in other animals and in humans. In Chinese Medicine, the life energy chi can be very strong even when one is an old person. There is also the youthful energy yong, which decreases with age as part of the natural life cycle. It's not just in China though, every culture in the history of the world is aware that children are more wildly energetic, and easily distracted, than old people.
Until now. In our culture, children being themselves is now a diagnosable disease called ADHD. That children are not as serious and focussed as adults is seen as a medical condition which is treated using powerful amphetamines, which are known to cause irreversible brain damage and permanent, negative, behavioral changes in everyone, especially children whose brains are still growing.
In China, no one would try to block the yong that is appropriate for youth because it is seen as in balance for that time in life. If you did block it, Chinese medicine, thousands of years old, predicts the results would be symptoms of premature aging. And what do we see in amphetamine users? Premature aging. We've all seen the booking photo sequences that show the progression that starts with an attractive young woman, and after 3 or 4 years of amphetamine abuse, she is a wrinkled, toothless, worn out old hag.
Apparently, that is what America wants for many of its children. A short, brain damaged life. A futile attempt to contain yong.
But why? Is the profit of the pharmaceutical industry so important that we must sacrifice our very children to it?