News Update The Wide Wide World O Prozac Dear Diary, 8/11/00 The BBC Radio's World Buiness Report told the , ahhh… World, today about how Prozac is about to lose its patent protection and a mass of cheap generics will soon be let loose on an unsuspecting world. It's is a topic worth pondering. Could it be, wondered the announcer to a cohort at Lehman Brothers, that Prozac is actually a major player in this so called endless economic boom the US has been claiming since, what… 1912? (Yeah; 1929 was just a market adjustment.) The Lehman Sister, not brother, as claimed, on the other end of the line was stoned enough to maintain a semblance of lucidity but obviously not so stoned that she would agree to such a logical observation. "People don't take Prozac to become overly happy," she said, "they take it so they can continue to function normally." Of course. That's just the point, isn't it? The GM people, asked to fire 10,000 people including themselves might have become an unruly mob if not for legal chemicals. The Bell Tel people who were asked to ax 40,000 jobs might have had a use for a legal chemical that would allow them to continue their sado-masochistic activities while seeming to "function normally." Can it be coincidental that the star of Prozac was ascending at the same time as the star of "structural adjustment programs" at the IMF? Our Lehman Sister disagreed; she appeared to be functioning normally. Makes you wonder though, doesn't it? Was Maggie Thatcher on drugs when she proclaimed Pinochet was "Brittain's Friend?" Or is she that way normally? And what about Pinochet? If Prozac was available for distribution in 1973 could he not have pushed the slaughter rate from the low thousands into the low millions? If Proazac was available then, would we not have a Pinochet Day in the US, just like Christmes? Oh, the missed opportunities! We have already seen in the 60s what people on LSD, mushrooms and pot do. They take to the streets and stop wars. They kick dictators out of office. So what can we expect when the price of Prozac drops from $1 to 10¢ a hit? If Nike workers can afford Prozac will they ask for a wage cut? Will China and India open their currency to the Wall Street Casino? Will the Brazilians start giving away the last of their trees just to get rid of them? My guess is: YES INDEED! I think the economic boom is just starting. I think we are going to see legislation in a coupla years that will put Prozac into the drinking water of "chronicly depressed" nations. I think that the human central nervous system is mis-wired and there is a CURE at hand. The financial collapse of 2001 is just going to be a minor adjustment. Happy Dreams and take your medication, JWP
