The Weekly Folly: A Filet Of News With An Anti-State Twist And A Dash Of Humor
In this week’s edition of The Weekly Folly, we study the fallacious propaganda of so-called experts as they try to convince the mind-numbed masses that stress is actually good for health.
Note: All comments and/or additions made by me to the original article are in bold.
HEADLINE from The London Telegraph: A stressful job could actually be good for your health, experts say
The following quote from Bertrand Russell is quite fitting for this article: (from the book The Impact Of Science On Society via wikiquote) “It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated.“
A stressful job could actually be good for your health, a new study has found.
My comments: Oh, everyone bow down to the experts! You can’t question the experts, you know. You just have to roll over and say “yes”! So I guess all people out there with stressful jobs should just shutup and enjoy their servitude like a good slave! Can you imagine some husband or wife telling their stressed-out spouse at the dinner table, “Well, they say that stress can be good for you, ya know!” What’s sad is that this will actually happen!
Experts say workers in stressful jobs are a third less likely to die than those with easier roles - but only if the worker is in control of their own workflow.
My comments: Funny how these experts don’t even need a name anymore. It’s like saying “God” or something. Can’t argue with God, now can you?! Well, not with experts, either!
Researchers tracked thousands of workers in their sixties from 2004 and found that, seven years later, those who had freedom and control in their high-stress role were 34 per cent less likely to have died than those in less stressful careers.
My comments: Notice the key words here. “Those who had freedom”…..keyword, FREEDOM. So I’ll go out on a limb here and say that it’s the FREEDOM that helps people live longer, not the STRESS. Imagine that! Freedom is good for you!
…...Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, the paper’s lead author, said: “These findings suggest that stressful jobs have clear negative consequences for employee health when paired with low freedom in decision-making, while stressful jobs can actually be beneficial to employee health if also paired with freedom in decision-making.” He added that not having control in a demanding job can lead people to eating or smoking more in order to cope. “When you don’t have the necessary resources to deal with a demanding job, you do this other stuff,” he said. “You might eat more, you might smoke, you might engage in some of these things to cope with it.”……...
My comments: I wonder how much this scientific genius got paid to do this so-called study? Stress makes people eat more and smoke, a scientific breakthrough! Again, key words “LOW FREEDOM” = stress and poor health. Also, did this study take into account pharmaceutical prescriptions that the participants were taking? How many visits to a medical mafia office did they make per year? How about TV? Was exercise taken into consideration?
…….Mr Gonzalez-Mulé said the results showed how restructuring jobs to give more control to employees could be beneficial to a business and its employees.
“You can avoid the negative health consequences if you allow them to set their own goals, set their own schedules, prioritise their decision-making and the like,” he said.
“Stressful jobs cause you to find ways to problem-solve and work through ways to get the work done.
“A stressful job then, instead of being something debilitating, can be something that’s energising.
“You are able to set your own goals, you are able to prioritise work. You can go about deciding how you are going to get it done. That stress then becomes something you enjoy.”
My comments: I wonder what corporations and think tanks sponsored this study. I can just imagine old man Rockefeller sitting around thinking, “How can we get the slaves to believe that stress is good for them?”
The quote from Bertrand Russell is from the following web page
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Impact_of_Science_on_Society
You can read the original article in its entirety @