“Anti-tech, really? And the progress of medicine huh?! ” (cliché no. 6)

Now a cleaver in the shape of a scalpel is falling upon us. But what is the aim of such a cliché if not to affiliate us with forces of death? Depth and sharpness are the qualities of the rhetorical wound that they would like to inflict on us, they will also be those of the response to this cliché.

I — The system offers us cures for the diseases it causes

Let us briefly outline the way of life that this system offers us. The individual who is contractually enslaved for a period of 35 hours (from school) exhausted and demotivated as soon as he gets out of work, using his body (except if he is a worker) only to get from his landing to his car; eating an infamous microwaved and sterilized porridge; falling asleep until the next weekend when alcohol will flow freely — moderate. The same endless day, until Cancer, with a few depressive episodes in the meantime. For his depression: benzodiazepine; for his fatigue: caffeine; for his joint pain: ibuprofen; for his deficiencies: vitamin cure; for his extinguished desire: viagra or sessions with a psychiatrist, etc. The body broken down into a series of repairable cogs, the man-machine cannot rebel; and his short imagination, he will give him over to the audiovisual production of the moment. Empty your head so as not to get a bullet in it, what a life! As for the anti-technology revolution, no doctor prescribes it.

Compared to any member of a traditional society, the technological slave looks pale. Obesity and metabolic diseases are rare among hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers, since ultra-processed foods and calorie bombs are absent. Likewise, let us recall their good cardiovascular health, resulting from a high degree of daily physical activity and reduced pollution; the same for asthma and allergies linked to birth in a sterilized environment. The examples being abundant, we will avoid them here.^[1].

“The destructive intervention of man on the environment has intensified in parallel with the alleged progress of medicine. The poisoning of nature by the chemical industry went hand in hand with the alleged increasing effectiveness of drugs; modern malnutrition, with the progress of dietary science^[2].”

It is as a human being in the grip of a disease Of civilization That the absolute rejection of the techno-industrial system came to me (not through reading but through spoiled flesh). And what do we offer to the sick of civilization if not civilization remedies? For those whose survival depends on the maintenance of the system, the injustice is glaring but the ardor to defeat it is reinforced, even at the cost of a shortened life. So should we show appreciation for what changed us into collateral victims of “progress”? But do we require rape victims to thank their attacker for not cutting their throat? Medicine is the antechamber of death, tinkering up as much as possible, and cost-effectively, the broken parts of a lethal system.

II — Modern medicine prevents autonomy and justifies enslavement

The medicine of the technological age is inseparable from the technocratic class, right and left, which is characterized by its confiscation of knowledge and the increasing complexity of treatment procedures. It offers an offer within the infinite human health market, thus multiplying requests. Anti-autonomy, it assists human beings right up to their intimacy. By treating the body as a mechanism and the patient as a machine, medicine is reduced to the mechanics of bodies worn out by an unnatural life. The hospital is becoming a repair shop; so that, for the luckiest (and especially for the most well-off), the arm crushed by the car accident will soon be replaced by a prosthesis that is more efficient than the original limb. After all, can't children's discomfort and restlessness already be treated by prescribing lithium?

In women's matters, medicine is characterized by dispossession of the body, its invasion and its intoxication: smear, daily pill, epidural, etc. The woman's body is only entitled to its development through daily poisoning, starting in adolescence, thus presenting sexuality as a liberty inseparable from scientific progress (and the pill as an excellent shield against acne, painful periods and male shortsightedness). And rather than denounce this poisoning, men are encouraged to administer the same poisoning to themselves. Pharmakon to experience an enjoyment marked by sterility, poison, and a drastic decrease in their libido. An invasion that alienates the female body, so much auscultations and “screening tests” make it difficult to appreciate the uterus other than as a foreign body, a source of regular pain, a time bomb (justifying in the process a delocalization of the birth in another person's womb). This feeling of alienation is due to being made foreign to their own bodies, to being deprived of the carnal knowledge of their natural processes through chemistry, to deforming the body into an immaterial abstraction, into a phantom. Materiality and self-knowledge are what those who manage to flee this techno-control find.

As for the body of the future mother: it does not belong to her either, it is the object of the medical profession — dispossession made easier by the reassuring presence of the latter, often acting as a remedy for broken families. Having become the thing of doctors, the body-object is abused at will: episiotomy as a standard procedure, lying position for delivery in defiance of Earth's gravity, location of bellies in the context of surrogacy. The list of horrors is constantly growing: artificialization of reproduction, babies on the catalog, creation of sperm by stem cells or eggs by modifying male gametes, artificial uterus, etc^[3]. Horrors that all contribute to the same vision of a Human species made biologically dependent on the techno-industrial system to survive. And the thought of an irremediable future of biotechnological slaves is intolerable to us.

III — The fear of death as a tool for domestication

From Safe Space To the Safe City, there is only one step: management hygienist of Covid was rich in lessons here. Enjoying of a new civilization disease, the technocracy assigned to each human his QR code. Ah fear, what a bargain! especially when it involves death.

Again:

“69. It is true that primitive man is powerless in the face of certain threats, for example disease. But he can take that risk stoically. It is in the nature of things, it is the fault of no one, except of some imaginary and impersonal demon. On the other hand, the perils to which modern man is exposed are created by man. They have nothing to do with chance, they are his imposed by others whom it cannot influence. So he feels frustrated, humiliated and angry.^[4].”

Consequently, the fear of dying that haunts humans in industrial societies seems to us to be much more of a afraid of not having been able to live. In this sense, the lack of wisdom is glaring. To be born is already to glimpse death at the end of the road, and only the life really lived, the one where the process of power has been fulfilled, allows you to avoid regrets.^[5]. Because let's not be deceived, the alleged increase in life expectancy that we owe to medicine is not accompanied by an increase in existence. Nature, freedom, community, daily effort, transmission, transmission, acceptance of death as the limit of life, nothing is left to us of what forms the heart of human existence. “And what do you do with connected patients?! ”, we are sometimes told. But are we only responsible for having linked the maintenance of their vital functions to that of an electrical network? Are you still giving this system the benefit of the doubt? Know that a few years gained by serving him better are not worth an extra life: for machine-men, it is only a Extended warranty.

IV — Medical research is deadly, both for living beings and for nature

How many hundreds of thousands of laboratory animals, tortured in the private and public sectors, living beings chipped and connected to a computer, human corpses manipulated for research purposes, animals electrocuted, poisoned, separated from their mothers, etc.? And in the industrial sector: cows with portholes, disabled poultry, sows selected to have more udders? The catalog of horrors can continue for a long time to come, to the point of making Doctor Frankenstein himself nauseous.

But let's go a step further, and deal with virus research in a few words. Again, the vaccination goal seems commendable. But what does it involve? Allegedly maximum security laboratories from which viruses for which there is no cure can escape. What is a laboratory classified P4 (class 4 pathogen) if not a death factory, perfectly usable for the manufacture of biochemical weapons since under military control (which is perfectly illustrated by the existence of the P4 laboratory of the DGA [General Directorate of the Armed Forces] in Essonne).

Research is inseparable from the real goal of scientists who, far from acting for the good of humanity, seek above all to satisfy their psychological needs; to solve problems. techniques without worrying about the consequences Real, convinced like Oppenheimer that knowledge is an end in itself. However, there is no science in itself, only science that has not yet found application.

“In view of all of the above, you have to really want it to still believe that most scientists are primarily driven by a desire to serve humanity. A less stupid version of scientific ideology represents science not as a humanitarian enterprise, but as morally “neutral”: scientists would only place certain tools at the disposal of society, and if unfortunate consequences ensue, the fault lies with society, for having “misused” these tools. Scientists' hands stay clean. Matthew 27:24 — “[Pontius Pilate] took water, washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, and said: I am innocent [...]^[6].””

Technological eugenics is unquestionably the most virulent and blatant form of this research reality. Since the child selected from the catalog is already a reality, the child naturalness is already considered ancient history. The scientists at work, under the pretext of “neutrality” and of responding to a parental need, grant themselves the right to bury the chance of births in the name of scheduling technological evolution of human evolution. Transhumanism is just the new name for eugenics.

V — Medicine is irreformable and its evolutions escape any legal control

Talk to a department manager at any hospital and they will quickly attest to the fact that even the smallest change in care procedures would require a great deal of effort. Embedded as it is in the whole that forms the technological system, the medical sector is subject to the same limitations as industry and the other elements that make up the technological system. It is impossible for it to reform itself; it must follow the economic trends and imperatives linked to the whole. Worse: that is to say the frailty of the health system.

The good aspects of medicine, since they exist, remain inseparable from the bad ones (see Poncif no. 4). After all, no MRI without militarized energy structures and without mining (for the manufacture and operation of the device). Therefore, it would be futile to think that you could change your trend, if only by means of the law. If successive bioethical laws have taught us one thing, it is that the law is only the antenna for ratification and validation. a posteriori Of all the most disgusting technological developments^[7].

Clearly, there are many forms of disease care and prevention that are compatible with small-scale technology only (Industrial society and its future, § 208), but others have already looked at this before us ; so we leave them aside to return to our one and only concern. It is because neither law nor reform can prevent our destruction as a species and the loss of our dignity that we are forced to act. See how the technological system has only one dead life to offer us. For those who put life and nature at the top, the solution lies in three words and a lot of effort: Anti-technology revolution.