headlines in the major media in the past couple of days report that the US government is reducing the recommended levels of fluoride in municipal drinking water supplies in response to reports that it leads to streaking and spotting on the teeth of youngsters -- this from my local paper's take on the story. the concern is mostly cosmetic, according to two-thirds of the piece.
a little further in, there appeared a bit more troubling take on the effects of fluoride in sufficient concentrations within the human body. for example, the international business times reports on a chinese study that found that high levels of fluoride in drinking water can lower IQ significantly.
now i'm beginning to understand how people like myself, who've drunk fluoridated water all our lives, are getting progressively stupider... not to mention a veritable mall of other toxic and health-destroying conditions that appear to result from exposure to high amounts of this toxic element.
i'm a daily reader of washington's blog, and i urge anyone who happens to read this to go there instead. the blogger over there keeps coming back every day with reporting that leaves me in awe. the jan. 7 piece about fluoride is but one example of the exceptional quality of the blog, where the news media's headlines are exposed for what they are: superficial, frequently misleading and perfunctory recitations of the best-case scenario -- nothing that will get your day started off on a downer. unfortunately, government, commerce and the media are so debased in this society, you can live your life oblivious to the incipient breakdown of our institutions, while experiencing the illusion of being totally tuned-in.
we don't know shit.
okay, read the piece about fluoride, and the follow up that explains how edward bernays, the father of public relations, was the man who sold fluoridation to the american public. that in itself is an education in how the ruling institutions control the public while indulging our illusion that we're all large and in charge of our lives and our world.
we ain't. maybe fluoride is one of the reasons it's been so easy for the sheep to be led by kleptocrats who themselves have proven they aren't any too bright, either. their success with us has given them undeserved confidence in their own cleverness.
think sarah palin.
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