15 Jul 2006
Checklist for Camp: Bug Spray. Sunscreen. Pills.

This indicates as strongly as anything I've read the ultimate bankruptcy of the modern way of life: we're rapidly becoming the Medicated Society, with a pill a day from the cradle to the grave. Or as one famous pundit phased it, "A gramme is better than a damn!".

Medication lines, unheard of a generation ago, have become fixtures at children's camps across the country.

(link) [New York Times]

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