The Logic Of Inefficiences

A man has back pain.

He visits a medical professional of any sort . . .

The medical professional says,

Take these medications.

The medications numb the pain,

But the pain returns.

 

He then visits a different practitioner.

This practitioner prescribes some exercises.

The man does the exercises

But the pain continues.

 

He then visits all manner of professionals.

Chiropractors, physical therapists, massage specialists, healers . . .

Each offers his own treatment.

 

None of the treatments work.

The back pain continues.

 

Each has his own explanation

For why the man has back pain.

 

He is told he has poor posture.

But he claims that he has always had poor posture,

But the back pain is new.

He is told that sooner or later the poor posture caught up with him.

He spends months fixing his posture.

But the pain continues.

 

He also notices those who have far worse posture than him,

Yet they have no back pain.

 

He is then told that his spinal facets are out of whack.

So the chiropractor gives him an adjustment.

But he has to keep getting adjusted . . . forever.

 

He asks how the facets got out of whack?

The chiropractor gives him a vague non-answer.

He then asks,

If the chiropractor “adjusted” him back into place,

Why does the adjustment not last?

The chiropractor tells him its maintenance that he must do forever.

 

He is then told that his back muscles are weak.

So he must join a gym to strengthen them.

 

He is then told that he needs to take vitamins.

And stretch.

And foam roll.

And release.

 

Thirty years later,

And his problem never goes away.

 

Each of the things that all of the practitioners told him

Made sense.

 

They were logical-sounding explanations.

They were reasonable possibilities.

 

Their prescriptions seemed logical.

And reasonable.

 

Yet despite the logic

And the reasoning . . .

Nothing actually WORKED.

 

This is the story

And the scenario

For all things

That man pursues in this world.

 

Without The Truth,

There is only

The Chase.

 

Namaste.