My elderly mother was given "neuroleptics" she died slowly and horribly, with profound akathisia and even high stepping, such as in arsenical poisoning.

I found this difficult to work out, feeling that, although the drug corporations would profit from her destruction, the other powerful interest groups would not. One particular powerful interest group cannot simply do exactly as it pleases, but must square it with the other powerful groups - the bulk of them must profit. But how could her death possibly benefit anyone but the drug corporations?

It seems clear to me now that Noam Chomsky has the answer: I listened to this speech the other day http://www.archive.org/details/dn1996-0509 and it seems to explain how wider power benefits from my mother's death.

If you look at the world he says, the nastier, poorer type of country simply kills a proportion of the economically inactive. Whereas in the United States, where one cannot get away with simply killing people, they are put in prison.

But, in western countries, you can get away with killing the elderly for you can disguise the industrial scale killing as medicine and anyway everyone anticipates their death.

But, of course, they cannot be that evil.

Isn't life grand.