> A social safety net. I believe this would be great. But perhaps not, perhaps this was only in the what Ovid calls the Golden Age -- perhaps small communities

> A social safety net. I believe this would be great. But perhaps not, perhaps this was only in the what Ovid calls the Golden Age -- perhaps small communities of hunter-gatherers, perhaps never in the way we imagined. But I don't see this happening unless we revert to much smaller communities. I think we could realistically cut world military spending by 90% before we could offer everybody that social safety net. So we DO need pills, because we cannot realistically offer 1 in X the support they need, the best we can do is offer pills that work long enough that they help themselves or some psychotherapy. Psychotherapy can be greatly helped in a lot of cases by pills. I have seen the light when I started experimenting with drugs(illegal and legal) -- it is such an incredible release to know you have the power to change your mental state, even if chemically. Having a Xanax in my walled, completely stopped my panic attacks, I haven't had one in years.