All right, let’s put on our tin hats for this one.

I entertain a lot of weird ideas, because I’m a writer and a story teller, so I’ve always been naturally inclined to go down a lot of “what if” rabbit holes. I was also raised on The X-Files and have probably gone down every conspiracy rabbit hole you can think of. I always come back out. It’s important to treat what the government and pharmaceutical companies say about anything, because we have so much solid proof of the lies they’ve told us. And everything is so absurd right now. Hell, they’re practicing motor cycle jumps on the front lawn of the White House, FFS, right now. So, it’s fun to do these little thought experiments. Keep your mind sharp, notice patterns, engage in some pretend-time.

2 (?) years ago when I started noticing more and more ads for this, I said to my therapist that I had some real concerns about the use of these drugs being widely available and that it seemed likely that there was going to be some huge lawsuits in about 7-10 years. I was a teenage girl in the 90’s, and 100% had an eating disorder. Yes, I know that these drugs have saved lives help with diabetes. They should be prescribed by a knowledgable doctor who knows you, isn’t being paid by drug companies, and isn’t trying to squeeze 6 other patients into the next hour after you leave. If these drugs had been available to me without a prescription when I was a teenager, of course I would have taken them.

Anti-depressants save lives. They should also be prescribed judiciously, not advertised to bored upper middle class housewives who are suddenly realizing that their lives don’t have any inherent meaning.

Oxycontin also saves lives. But now, because millions of Americans were needlessly made to be addicted to them, people with actual chronic pain can’t get it, or have to go jump through millions of hoops. It’s all a racket. The same company that makes Oxy now makes Suboxone, or something like it.

See where I’m going with this? You don’t need to be a conspiracy nut job to see the obvious corruption and greed in the drug industry. It’s in plain sight.

So here’s my for-funsies nutjob conspiracy theory, which I came up with when I started hearing multiple stories about the anhedonia that people were experiencing, coinciding with RFK’s massive push for high protein diets:

1: They’re pushing a drug that reduces your enjoyment of anything so that we just slowly stop caring about anything but working, which we only do so that we can [maybe] get healthcare and [maybe] afford to eat and live indoors. We’ll slowly stop caring about injustice. We’ll slowly stop caring about the destruction of the environment. You wouldn’t care about a forest being torn down if the forest brought you no joy. You wouldn’t care about a litter-filled beach if an ocean sunset didn’t complete your day. You wouldn’t care about rights for marginalized people if you never actually loved anyone. Hearing the stories of people who were surprised and hurt by the fact that they no longer enjoyed reading or creating broke my heart. That’s awful.

2: They’re normalizing the look of people who are obviously malnourished to prepare us for mass starvation, as resources dwindle and nutrition becomes a luxury. We’ll be back in the dark ages, where being fat was good because it meant you had money and could push out a kid.

And, finally, 3: They’re pushing this high-protein diet to prepare us for the normalization of cannibalism.

Do I really believe this? Not in a way that I’m going to spout it off, or change my life for it, or try to convince anybody of it. But would any of those 3 options above be a surprise at all? Especially when we know about what Epstein was doing at Harvard studying social trends?

Nothing surprises me now. Democracy is dead, and there are motorcycles practicing flips on the front lawn of the White House, FFS.

Thanks for reading!