Project 2: Pill People
As I sat pondering what in the world I would do for my second project I remembered that I hadn't taken my pills yet. This made me start thinking about what a terribly disruptive technology modern medicine is. It has interupted the natural life cycle of humans, alowing us to live far longer than we were ever supposed to.
Now don't get me wrong, I love modern medicine, hell without it I'm sure I wouldn't have made it past age 5, but it has definitly changed us as a species. From antibiotics to antidepressants modern medicine has brough us a long way.
So to portray all of this I decided to build some pill people with all of my unused ineffective medicines I have been perscribed over the years and some over-the-counter stuff I had laying around.
Behold, the Pill People:
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