Is it not? Or do we pretend the values we admire are health, and peace, and wellbeing, and honor, when the values our culture and society clearly favor health-through-pharma, idolize gangsters and thugs, entertain ourselves with depictions of violence, and punish honorable behavior?
In regard to the MIC, the bulk of that money flow is with US based business. I have personally seen contracts END because a CANADIAN was placed on the executive board of a company...
Let me clarify: we at the Garden of Eden prefer health and peace and wellbeing, so we live according to those values, rather than participate in feeding the war machine. The larger society and culture does indeed endorses Big Pharma, the monopoly on violence, manipulation and control. At the end of the day, WE have to answer to ourselves, so we at the GOE choose not to participate in those dishonorable systems in any way.