The News; Some of it’s fun, some of it sucks
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Nuance Lost
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So Tired…
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News Recap
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The Trouble with AuDHD
Get this, of all the prescription drugs we buy regularly (and there are quite a few), of all the medicine that like while the doctor’s note to buy, the hardest one to get is methylphenidate (a.k.a Ritalin), the one that treats ADHD. By hard to get I mean I can only buy one pack, a month’s supply, I have to do it on a specific day, only I can do it, because they require ID, that they photocopy every time. Are you following? The drug that is supposed to help people with attention disorders, with executive dysfunction issues, with a serious problem of just generating enough motivation to do anything, even things they know are good for them, sometimes even things that make them happy, is the most difficult thing to buy. How the fuck does that make sense?
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What’s is like being me?
It’s spending two hours drinking calm tea, laying back, breathing, meditating so I can calm my heart rate and the general anxiety enough to actually have a day. It’s sitting down to write, that I love to do, staring at the heading, knowing what needs to go under it, having ten more ideas and being unable to move my fingers. It’s looking at another project I love, at something easy to do for it, something that might get more eyes on it, and just closing it because I can’t bring myself to. It’s being unable to be productive and then not allowing myself to do relaxing, fun, energetic things because I wasn’t productive enough yet. It’s knowing that walking down a path will just be a net good for me and that I can stop whenever it’s too much but being unable to take the first step. It’s liking a very minimalistic, strictly ordered environment while the inside of my brain is a dark mess of sharp broken pieces of trepidation and phobias.
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Moloch, Religion, and Population
The Haredim “problem” we have in Israel is also a Moloch Trap. The Muslim “problem” in the rest of the western world is similar but different. Let’s start with the first: Judaism, like every religion, has a convoluted history that left us with the branches we have today. We have Reformists, Conservatives, and Orthodox sects (Let’s leave the Secular and Traditionalists out of this one). The newer ones, Reformists and Conservatives, have only been around for a few decades and are still a minority. But Orthodox Jews aren’t that simple either. There are many subsects of those. But this point applies to basically all of them: They have more children per family than any other denomination, 6.6 children on average according to recent data compared to 2.1-2.4 that is the general average. This means that over time, Orthodox Jews will become a bigger and bigger part of the population. A part that, in Israel at least, mostly distance themselves from everyday life of work, military service, and participation in the mechanisms of the state (some don’t. I had a couple in my university preparation classes), a part that will more and more require financial support from the smaller and smaller population of active tax payers. Despite more and more Orthodox and “Ultra-Orthodox” people splitting off in favor of regular life every year, their leaders, the Rabbis and “Askanim”, actually work to keep those societies isolated and under control. So yes, it’s easy to point at them and their lifestyle that Continue Reading →
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