Greetings @erh.germany.

You make some really great points here.

This idea of policing ones own mind. Would it be appropriate to say everyone does this? How could one live in society if they never police their own mind?

This is on the basis of personal perception, to try to perceive what another person might be like with lack of self policing, in that if I am to imagine another man not policing his mind, it would be from a self centered perspective of how I would operate, if I were in his shoes. To say I can be one hundred percent empathetic to the mind of another would likely be a falsity. To admit we may not completely be able to see things from another minds perspective could be construed as humility, or wisdom, or intelligence.

Disagreement to this could be perceived as delusion, denial, or lack of understanding to one who perceives this perception paradox. Is it a paradox? In a way I think it is.

This self policing should probably be clarified to an outwardly policing in the context I am writing, and raises more questions. Would one literally police their own thoughts inwardly and push out thoughts that are not socially acceptable? Or would one explore these thoughts scientifically? Or embrace them? Or just simply accept them as "Is" without any judgement at all?

To answer these questions is self explorative and difficult to define for another. It makes me think of Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning. His proposition is that the meaning of life cannot be defined, for it must be experienced by the experiencer. This is well in line with perception, because perception is a self experiential thing, and I propose that it may be impossible to perceive the world through the eyes of another.

I know for sure that chemicals work, that they make me feel better and that one certainly gets reliable results when you measure blood and stuff but that does not say something about the state of being on a mental basis. What is meanwhile commonly known, is, that meds treat the symptoms but not necessarrily are healing.

There is a disturbing aspect to this indeed, but upholds how a collective agreement or goal between individuals can exact certain results that may not necessarily be intended.

I compare consumer industry to pharma industry in this context.

Light bulbs, fans, cookware, cleaning items and many other household items used to last much longer and were much better built. This is well documented, and with enough digging one will find that corporate profit model interests influenced the degradation of certain technologies instead of the advancement. It's a strange double edged sword, because we have made major advancements in technology but certain items have been molded to be very "replaceable" for corporate profit.

The same can be said for pharma in a sense. Whereas older generations may be more inclined to use natural remedies and not be so quick to run to the doctors, corporate interests have normalized the process through well funded ad campaigns, media campaigns, and probably even have capitalized off of (or influenced altogether?) the covid narrative.

How would this influence meds to be designed as "maintenance" med (with dependency) instead of "healing" drugs with one time use?

Show me the money baby, you ain't coming back if I heal you!

And some grubby profiteers started manipulating things... now we have lots of maintenance meds that you better not run out of! Scary thought!

It would be like if I was 3D printing for profit and profit alone...
I would be thinking:
"What could I print that would deteriorate quickly and cost a lot, to make my customers come back over and over again."
This is the mindset that screws us over, because it starts at the neighbor level and manifests its way up to a corporate level like a virus.

I do believe humans are very empathetic creatures however, and the majority of people are good and controlled by fear.

Self policing and policing of others is not a very good thing in my opinion, but I recognize it as necessary in some parts of our lives.

If I didn't self police at least a little, I could get in trouble...

It's that little voice that says "I better not say or do that, pick your battles."

Is this good or bad? Or just a construct of human behavior and perception? Very interesting topic.

Thank you kindly for your thoughts and great conversation on the topic my friend! 🤗