[PattiJT]

Please pardon the following interruption, regularly scheduled posting may resume after this rant by the OP.

I am so sick and tired of goddam fat assed f---king lazy money grubbing so-called doctors!!!! The asshole that runs the clinic where my wife and I have gone for over 5 years has just cost me another fine doctor, the 3rd in 4 years. All very capable and caring females, incidentally. I don't blame them for leaving. They had long hours, up to 7 days a week, and were forced to try to "process" a boatload of patients every day. Funniest part was, they were always ahead of the head man. We might wait 1 to 1&1/2 hours, where he could be up to 3 hours behind. Even the other staff turnover was outrageous, with calls to straighten problems usually answered with "I'm sorry, but we have a new person handling that, and she hasn't got her shit together yet"!! And on and on. No excuse for this bullshit. If I can find out where she went, I'm switching offices. hell, I'm going doctor shopping whether I can find her or not!! Yup, I'm mad as hell, and I WON"T take it anymore. And I don't give a rats-ass about starting over with another doc, as long as they run their business better!

Sorry for that. It's been festering a couple days. Even though there was another thread going on about doctors, didn't want to pop this in there, or start another one just to spill.

Enjoy your day, and don't mind me. Patti

[Lenneth]

know the feeling, their are a lot of businesses that are that way anymore with their employees.

I could list at least a page of companies by name that not only treat their employees little better than indentured slaves, but also will either fire/lay off/run off their good employees and keep the bad employees because they blow sunshine up upper management's backsides.....

and avoiding going into a rant myself I will post a link to an article I found recently that I think has at least part of the problem pegged.

Article Here

[AbiDrew85]

and avoiding going into a rant myself I will post a link to an article I found recently that I think has at least part of the problem pegged.

Article Here

And he also spouts some nonsense as well... But yeah. While I dislike the man and most of his ideas, he is right about some of that.

He's what I like to call a "political" psychologist though. Rather than research and learn actual FACTS, he would rather research and learn how to BEND them towards an agenda.

And a very significant part of that agenda is extreme heteronormativism. He loves to demonize every one on this forum as well as all the gays, lesbians, and gender-noncomformists of every stripe.

So... just be VERY VERY careful just how much you buy in to what he says. If you're not careful, he'll be convincing you to hate yourself before too long.

[flamesabers]

and avoiding going into a rant myself I will post a link to an article I found recently that I think has at least part of the problem pegged.

Article Here

And he also spouts some nonsense as well... But yeah. While I dislike the man and most of his ideas, he is right about some of that.

He's what I like to call a "political" psychologist though. Rather than research and learn actual FACTS, he would rather research and learn how to BEND them towards an agenda.

And a very significant part of that agenda is extreme heteronormativism. He loves to demonize every one on this forum as well as all the gays, lesbians, and gender-noncomformists of every stripe.

So... just be VERY VERY careful just how much you buy in to what he says. If you're not careful, he'll be convincing you to hate yourself before too long.

I'm not familiar with this psychiatrist. However, my impression from this article is he's a bit cynical and presumptuous. It strikes me as odd that despite how much he rants about the shortcomings with today's youth and society at large, he offers no real solutions.

[sfem]

Rant on!
Not going to bother clicking on any link to foxnews.com. One of the few organizations that exists as proof that electrons can be completely wasted or used for evil ends. If there was a god, s/he'd give foxnews's scent to the westboro baptist church. They deserve each other.
Rant off!

[SarahSchilling]

All forms of modern corporate media are simply a tool used to market moralistic duality, dividing people into such vastly opposed ideologies that no reasonable discussion can take place, no solutions can ever be reached, and it's all to maintain the status quo of corporatism.

As much as I loathe Fox News, it's a bit naive to think the other side of the spectrum is any different. Not that my opinions on the matter are any more valid than those held by others.

[PattiJT]

I used to be willing to blame many of the worlds' problems on soap operas. Hell, if you had a good life, it would go to hell after watching soap operas and feeling like you were missing something because you didn't have these unreal problems. So, it seems watchers went out of their way to create their own messes so they'd feel normal. WTF. Faux News?? Perhaps the devils' own soap opera , BUT we wouldn't have Fox if not for all the (insert your own assortment of derogatory adjectives) assholes who blindly listen and believe all the impossibly unrealistic diarhhea that flows from their overpaid orifices.

Agreed, Sarah, they all have their shortcomings and we watch them at our own peril, so to speak. But, Fox stands far and away above the others.

[Lenneth]

urk, didn't mean to imply that I "totally" agreed with that article, but the "gist of it" I do agree with.

Our Society has indeed created a Generation of "Deluded Narcissists", as for what I would blame for it it is not any one thing but bits and pieces of a multitude of things (Far to much and to wide spread to Ever list).

[MonikaT]

I'm not familiar with this psychiatrist. However, my impression from this article is he's a bit cynical and presumptuous. It strikes me as odd that despite how much he rants about the shortcomings with today's youth and society at large, he offers no real solutions.

You're not missing much. Several years ago, Ablow had what I thought was a syndicated daytime TV talk show similar to all of the others though less trashy. It aired on my local Fox affiliate, but then so did Springer the year before. Now that he is a frequent contributor to Faux News, I suspect his show was probably aired exclusively on Fox stations. Like nearly everyone else on Faux News, he takes the position his corporate overlords wish to present. They have a message that appeals to people on the lowest level of instinct, and they present it in such a way that emotion disconnects higher brain functions like reason and logic. I am assaulted by it for 10 hours a day, 4 days a week at work. We have a TV tuned to a news station 24/7 because there might be some sort of disaster that could affect our customers, etc. Other of my employer's sites insist on CNN (I've seen emails reminding people to leave their local TV tuned to CNN). I'm guessing if corporate were contacted, they would mandate CNN. The people where I work would have a fit if the channel were changed. I hate it.

While I tend to agree with Ablow regarding many of his observations on narcissism, as has been pointed out, he offers no solutions. I work with a bunch of such people, and they are so confident in their abilities, oblivious of how little they know, and when they make big mistakes, they laugh them off, quickly forget them, and go on to make the same or similar mistakes repeatedly. There is a huge disconnect from reality these days.

[bryony]

All forms of modern corporate media are simply a tool used to market moralistic duality, dividing people into such vastly opposed ideologies that no reasonable discussion can take place, no solutions can ever be reached, and it's all to maintain the status quo of corporatism.

As much as I loathe Fox News, it's a bit naive to think the other side of the spectrum is any different. Not that my opinions on the matter are any more valid than those held by others.

Hi Sarah,

I totally agree! What we have now is rule by a political class, more of an oligarchy than democracy. When I was a kid, politicians had experience of life, probably active military service in WWII, or otherwise some other real job. What we have now are a bunch of people who go to college to study to become politicians, leave college, work as interns, and know no other life. The difference between the political parties (at least in the UK) is purely cosmetic, and I suspect the same can be said for all Western democracies. None of them are truly representative, and in fact they sneer at the concept of "populism". My vote usually goes to the "none of the above" party.