Placebo is just a derrogatory term for the fact that your mind influences your body and your perception of what is real. It is a perversion of capitalist socie

Placebo is just a derrogatory term for the fact that your mind influences your body and your perception of what is real. It is a perversion of capitalist societies to only accept a physical and obvious influence as being able to change something. The trick is - our mind is physical - at least physically manifested - and so it should be evident for even mildly educated people that your mind can affect your body. So instead of disregarding placebo as some bullshit that is used to test whether something actually works - why not invest some time and money into perfecting the application of placebo effects? Well, and here we are back to the mechanisms of capitalism - you couldn't sell that very well ... that's the problem. And if you think about it - perfecting the reliability and effect of placebo "medication" would inevitably lead in a straight path to ... meditation.