Nearsightedness: All Articles2024-08-27T02:35:33+00:00

I’m Your Huckleberry

It’s the little things that kill.  

(‘Little Things’ – Bush)

Ole Jakey be killing it in this month’s monthly e-mail.  For the sake of posterity and in case you most unwittingly and unfortunately don’t get my e-mails, let’s just repost it here:

Hi ,

Time for the monthly Jake-digressions (for your darling eyeballs).

You know what bothers me the MOST?  No you’re thinking, Jake I don’t care what bothers you, like at all.

I’ll tell you anyway.  Prescriptions.  The mere word, ugh.  It’s a lie!  Just like calling you a ‘patient’ (outlandish, that one), or a lens seller in a shopping mall discount retail store referring to themself as ‘doctor’.  As if!  Dude’s got zero medical degree.  Just picture your dentist insisting you call him a doctor.  

“I am your doctor, dammit man!  Respect mah authoratah.”

Let’s excempt some though that are at least sort of on the side of sanity:

Some optometrists (still not MDs) got some sense.  Rare breed.

But why care about these labels either way?  Because the industry preys on you for that automatic trust.  “Oh they’re a doctor!  Ohh that’s a prescription!”

No.  It’s a sales pitch.  Every time you go into that retail store in a retail mall, they increase the diopters juuuust enough so that you have to buy a new thing.  Do you think you notice 0.25 diopter change either way?  As if.  Though worst case yes, they up the diopter enough to make your eyes even more dependent.

This is TRUE.  It’s insidious, it’s a tiny little cut, in a thousand cuts, that make you depend on yet another thing created by some billion dollar industry.  You stand no chance against their huge and intricate marketing machine.

And step number one of that marketing, is calling a clear curved piece of plastic, a “prescription”.

If you’re extra astute in your detailed critical thinking, you likely have at some point thought … how come reading glasses aren’t a prescription?  That’s right.  Same clear curved plastic.  SAME impact, moving the focal plane in your eye.  No?  That’s something you can buy for $15 in any convenience store?  How weird, isn’t it.

I’ll tell you another ‘secret’:  In loads of countries you can literally buy minus lens contacts (and glasses) at most any 7-11.  Literally.  Some gum, a water, a box -2 diopter contacts.  What’s the difference in gratuitously massive danger for people there, just buying lenses all willy nilly?  Well … the lens mafia didn’t spend millions lobbying fat cat government bureaucrats to make them ‘prescriptions’.  For you.  So you have to pay giant markups.

Make sure you can’t pop into a 7-11 and spend $6 on a pack of contact lenses (literal reality, depending where you live).

If you read this far, I apologize.  I know I’m way too deep into this eyeball topic, for way too long (20 years!).  But IT’S YOUR EYESIGHT.  Don’t give up on your eyes.  It’s symbolic, it’s a tiny little thing over years and years.  They condition you to be literally HELPLESS without them.  It’s insidious, it’s like some dark science fiction, and it’s all lies.

Unless …

EM, literally the ONLY place where you find even optometrists confirming improving eyesight.

I will throw in my own sales pitch in here, opportunely and for your benefits.  

The choice, as ironic as it perhaps may be, is voting for what world you want (with money).  It’s either education and taking the effort route, and funding one weird old beardly sage and truth.  Or … paying Big Glasses so they can do more lobbying so they can keep you in their subscription scheme forever.  There’s no not picking sides.  It’s better eyes or worse eyes.

And glasses are a forever subscription scheme.

Also right now I’m offering live Zoom chats, with me personally.  You know that’s not gonna last long!  But check out the options now (some actually great deals), and lock ole Jakey into getting on them Zooms and talking eyeballs with you.  Click the ‘pricing guide’ here for detalious, details.

Also, also right now I have a live chat Zoom seminar coming up in November, that you might want if you have kids with myopia.  If it’s not sold out yet, you’ll find it on the course list.

And with that, Jakey out.  A little overcast but the beach be calling.  And we be calling, if you pick some Zoom chats.  Along with:

  • 20+ Week Program 
  • 84+ Structured Sessions Covering All Steps
  • Text & Video Format Sessions
  • Le Meow Forum (60,000 Monthly Visits) Membership
  • 50+ Full Shortsighted Podcast Episodes
  • 200+ Pro Topic Videos
  • Rough Guide & Measuring Guide
  • Astigmatism / Cylinder Management
  • One-On-One Support With Jake (via support forum)
  • Optional: Child Program Add-On (no extra charge)
  • 60 Day Easy Refund Guarantee

Thanks for reading, getting a little counter-mainstream idea into your day.

And perhaps see you soon over in my private Le Meow forum – for more talk about eyeball emancipation (or next month for more musings),

Cheers,

– Jake

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