Just read Leonora Carrington’s novel, The Hearing Trumpet and was stopped in my tracks by the following passage –
What is the Well of Light Brotherhood? That sounds more terrifying than death itself, a Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people and the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
The novel tells the story of an elderly woman put away in a “home” by her son and his wife when her behaviour becomes difficult for them. The home is run by the “Well of Light Brotherhood”.
You know, it seems to me that health care these days is probably run by the same people!!
unfortunately seems to be the case, bully tactics run on fear and seems to work when no alternatives are presented…sad as vulnerable populations, like the elder, are at risk of dying due to the “care” they get….
[…] a fear of dying is a good basis for a life. I don’t like all the scaremongering of the “Well of Light Brotherhood” types who know with such certainty how the rest of us should be living our lives to reduce […]