The lobotomy paradigm contains a valuable lesson. It is a prime example of the way by which a figment of pseudo-science, less credible than Cold Fusion or Piltdown Man, can thrive within the jurisdiction of psychiatry, a branch of medicine unconstrained by ethical, scientific or intellectual standards. Unopposed for 30 years, it left in its wake an inconceivable legacy of human suffering. Doctors of distinguished reputations in fields unrelated to psychology gave it, vicariously but effectively, the seal of authority. Coinciding with the onslaught of great historic catastrophes, it was enthusiastically endorsed by an irresponsible press, its credulous readership, and the administrators of bankrupt state mental hospitals. Indeed, it faded away only because the psychiatric drugs were finally able to solve age-old problems of management and administration endemic to the asylum.

4 years, 28 days, 14 hours, 25 minutes, 50 seconds until the Mayan end of Age.

"When you get old, the only things you remember are the things you dared to do and the things you didn't dare to do. All the daily stuff, the things you had to do, the things someone paid you to do, blur into the nothingness of 'unimportant to your soul', and when you look back on your life you only see the dreams you made happen and the dreams you were afraid to pursue." --P.J. Gaenir's grandfather

Dare! Chance favors the bold.