This would be more convincing as a legit vintage ad if it didn’t list conditions by their modern names. Several of these terms either didn’t exist, or were not in common use, back when lobotomies were actually performed.
But yeah, it could easily be an ad for treating liberalism.
We no longer physically lobotomize people. We do it electronically with social media, “smart” phones and peer pressure. Using these methods we have successfully “debrained” millions of people, far more than could be physically altered.
There is, regrettably, too much truth in this take. Although I’d say it truly began in earnest with the advent of TV being available to the masses. One might even pin some blame on movies, but that was something people had to leave home for, and so consumed with lesser frequency, whereas TV brought the mind rot directly into the comfort of their living rooms anytime they wanted to switch it on.
I’ve often said if I had a time machine, I’d go back and try to suppress the development of TV. I’d also take out some no good sonsabitches who needed to be removed from the arc of history, but that’s another subject.
Ok, that’s true. Although I can’t think of the last time I heard lobotomies spoken of as an actual legit treatment. If it’s being done, it’s certainly being kept under the radar. The modern model of medicine as it relates to mental and psychological issues is most heavily focused on pharmaceutical treatments.
I’ve only ever known one person (who was older than my parent’s age by about 15 years, so born in the mid 1930’s) who I know for certain had one done. That was performed sometime in the 1960’s, and we didn’t find out about it until after his passing, about 35 years ago, when his wife told us about it.
He was an odd dude certainly, but I would never have expected he had been lobotomized. Although honestly I guess I’d always thought a lobotomy would leave one with very obvious effects on cognition. Not sure why I came to that idea, but the guy in question functioned pretty normally (in terms of holding a job and other regular day to day existence) for whatever it’s worth.
Lobotomies fell out of favor much like ECT(Electro Convulsive Therapy) did, but there are some neurologists that use the old techniques on some patients that do not respond to modern pharmaceutical treatments. Why you don’t hear of them much, back then and now, there was a stigma about people receiving that barbaric medieval therapy for their illness.
That looks eerily like that fucking COVID test.
They shove that thing up your nose, scratch the part of your brain that is used for logical thinking, then you stand in line happily waiting for your death jab.
I wish I was good with Photoshop, I would change the first line to “Are you a Democrat?”
I think I’ve already had one
Coffee or lobotomy? Be clear! If not a lobotomy, I could preform it, I can’t guarandamntee it though…
This would be more convincing as a legit vintage ad if it didn’t list conditions by their modern names. Several of these terms either didn’t exist, or were not in common use, back when lobotomies were actually performed.
But yeah, it could easily be an ad for treating liberalism.
We no longer physically lobotomize people. We do it electronically with social media, “smart” phones and peer pressure. Using these methods we have successfully “debrained” millions of people, far more than could be physically altered.
There is, regrettably, too much truth in this take. Although I’d say it truly began in earnest with the advent of TV being available to the masses. One might even pin some blame on movies, but that was something people had to leave home for, and so consumed with lesser frequency, whereas TV brought the mind rot directly into the comfort of their living rooms anytime they wanted to switch it on.
I’ve often said if I had a time machine, I’d go back and try to suppress the development of TV. I’d also take out some no good sonsabitches who needed to be removed from the arc of history, but that’s another subject.
Actually, we still do. It is not as prevalent as before, but it is a diagnostic treatment for some disorders, it has not been made illegal or banned.
Ok, that’s true. Although I can’t think of the last time I heard lobotomies spoken of as an actual legit treatment. If it’s being done, it’s certainly being kept under the radar. The modern model of medicine as it relates to mental and psychological issues is most heavily focused on pharmaceutical treatments.
I’ve only ever known one person (who was older than my parent’s age by about 15 years, so born in the mid 1930’s) who I know for certain had one done. That was performed sometime in the 1960’s, and we didn’t find out about it until after his passing, about 35 years ago, when his wife told us about it.
He was an odd dude certainly, but I would never have expected he had been lobotomized. Although honestly I guess I’d always thought a lobotomy would leave one with very obvious effects on cognition. Not sure why I came to that idea, but the guy in question functioned pretty normally (in terms of holding a job and other regular day to day existence) for whatever it’s worth.
Lobotomies fell out of favor much like ECT(Electro Convulsive Therapy) did, but there are some neurologists that use the old techniques on some patients that do not respond to modern pharmaceutical treatments. Why you don’t hear of them much, back then and now, there was a stigma about people receiving that barbaric medieval therapy for their illness.
That looks eerily like that fucking COVID test.
They shove that thing up your nose, scratch the part of your brain that is used for logical thinking, then you stand in line happily waiting for your death jab.