Here’s a weird headline. At least I hope you find it weird: “CDC Warns Thousands of Children Sent to ER After Taking Common Sleep Aid.” And my big concern isn’t even that a common sleep aid is causing medical emergencies. It’s that so many kids are taking them that thousands can experience adverse effects. Why is everyone on drugs, including children?
Here I scowl, “O brave new world, that has such people in it.” I realize they no longer teach such things in schools (when I asked a Grade 7 English teacher which novels they’d be teaching I was informed it was the wrong question). But I trust Epoch Times readers to know it’s from Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” and inspired Aldous Huxley’s sardonic novel title about people living dreadful empty lives in a contented pharmacological stupor.
