countersignal:

alternaterealitygame:

lovessevy:

the-phandom:

it gets worse

I have bipolar and I laughed.

Me too.

This is stupid not only because of the schoolmarm/whitecloak mentality — we, the righteous, must protect the fragile little ones who are incapable of interacting with the world without our righteous protection, and we must do so by curbstomping everyone else, those filthy, disgusting shitlords who aren’t as righteous as us — but also because it’s completely historically illiterate. Lithiated beverages were widely sold for this exact purpose until they were banned a few years after the end of WW2.

But, that’s right, history doesn’t real and cultural memory is shitlord shit that ought to be torn down and destroyed, the better to let the whitecloaks reprogram everyone they don’t feel like killing.

Invoke tradition of mineral springs as cure-all (Lithia Springs, GA; Lithia Springs in Ashland, OR)

Invoke tradition of “water cure” sanitariums as cure-all

Invoke vitamins (“vital minerals”) and 19th century nutrition science

Invoke American mythology of elemental salts as mind control/public hygiene (fluoridated water; sulfur as anti-aphrodisiac in army food, lithium as public water additive?)

Invoke “rehab centers” as successor idiom to water-cure sanitariums and mineral springs as cure-all