C.R.A.P.

Saw the best acronym ever today: “Compulsive Risk Assessment Psychosis”, a.k.a. C.R.A.P. In the context it was printed, it means a situation when doctors and pharma execs exaggerate the significance of every sniffle to scare people into scheduling more appointments and buying more drugs.

My mind is, of course, already expanding the concept. C.R.A.P. can be found in so many places. Media outlets drumming up scare stories about how you get beaten up for no reason every time you step outside of your home at night; greens convincing us that everything is going to shit even though air and water is clean compared to before. And so on.

I guess the antidote is to not believe everything people tell you. Often, it’s C.R.A.P. Especially if somewhere along the line, money is transported from your wallet to theirs.