It's a mad mad mad mad world

If ever this mad, mad, mad, mad world needed "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" it's now! (1970 re-release)

That movie was release in 1963, and re-release in 1970. I think it should be re-re-release today.

Like all great comedy, it has an element of tragedy. To quote  one  reviewer,  "...But underneath all the slapstick and shouting, holding the whole movie together, is that incredibly cynical message. It is a movie about kind, decent folks turning into law-breaking lunatics and ruining their lives for the sake of money. The subplot with Spencer Tracey realizing his entire life has been a waste, and then ruining what life he has left, is one of the most tragic story lines I have seen. But it's also pretty darn funny.

All the critics need to lighten up and see this for the absurd, delirious, hysterical farce it is."

And that's the way of life. We go from the absurdly ridicules to the sublime, to the deadly serious in the blink of an eye.

Sometimes when I look at the headlines, I think the whole world has gone crazy.

 

And the advertisements for mood enchanting drugs and sleep aids are going great guns. We may all be crazy, but we'll be a happy bunch, who sleep well at night!

 

But there is a dark side to this, too. 

The word Pharmacy is based the Greek root word Pharmakia

Pharmakeia = administration of drugs to the ill
Pharmakon = magic or poison (there is no such thing as magic, but lots of poison)

The word "Pharmakia" is Greek for witchcraft and Sorcery as used in the New Testament when we are warned against using witchcraft etc. 

 These drugs can be extremely beneficial or they can be a curse. It is up to us to discern the differents. But we're taking a lot of them. I read that we're popping so many mood drugs that their breakdown products in urine, gushing into waterways, have accumulated in fish tissues. When we've gotten to the point of poisoning fish, you know we're talking about a lot of drugs.

Happy fish.... I like that.