"Faith In Medicine" Is An Odd Concept (When You Think About It, So Don't)

 

You always know you're in a rational, 21st century society that loves science whenever you read "Fortune Telling Businesses Booming During Pandemic: ‘People Want To Have Some Hope’" - and you can read that a lot. But, rest assured, when even the combined talents of Common and John Legend aren't working out as well as some assumed, everything is progressing as it should be.

Speaking of music, how can anyone even be allowed to have hope in a time when we get not only the smarm of Common and John Legend but the political warblings of David Byrne - not his super-nice former bandmates who just wrote a book about his assholishness and betrayal - but David Byrne, like we don't know he's the asshole who betrays nice people. Living in such a period in history will suck the hope out of anyone, so - considering the NewAge - all is well.

I mean, look at Chance The Rapper: one day, he's floored by a Psychic Friend getting in touch with him, and the very next day, he's floored by his ex-manager getting in touch with him, too. I told you he was naive about the occult. Where's the reason for hope? In the fact he, and everyone else, don't listen.

Even Kanye West is being sued by his Sunday Service choir. If your own personal Sunday Service choir doesn't have faith in you (assuming you're the type to want and have your own personal Sunday Service choir) things will definitely start looking pretty damn bleak in The Hope Dept.

Fortunately, TMR can only feel the darkness closing in whenever someone like Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, says something stupid like "If the United States were my patient: Science cannot rescue us from ourselves" but it's NOT also reported he once did a credulous report on the sex-crazy Raelian UFO cult, shilled for Oprah's buddy, the convicted rapist and cult leader, John of God, and couldn't spot The Anti-Vaccine Movement when it started (nor has he gone after any of it's celebrity endorsers) leaving many feeling more-than-a-little hopeless, or however you'd describe it, after sharp-as-a-tack former-President Barack Obama decided he should be Surgeon General (making TMR sure Oprah's had no effect on that President whatsoever). That medical appointment didn't happen, BTW. Hope restored.

Thank goodness for Dr. Deepak Chopra. Hope, and professionalism, are always restored when he's around. He's the essence of sound medical judgement today. Science: what would we do without you? 

We're pretty fucked listening to David Byrne, that's for sure.