Evidently medical professionals have observed for years that Parkinson’s patients are of a type, characterized by:
industriousness, punctuality, orderliness, inflexibility, cautiousness, and lack of novelty-seeking, drive, ambition, altruism, cleanliness, and a tendency toward obsession with details.
One can’t help but notice that these are all the qualities which make people successful in corporations and public school classrooms, and it’s the same tiresome list that’s preached from pulpits of virtually every religion, including the supposedly enlightened ones, like Buddhism.
The hypothesis is that the same disease agent that causes Parkinson’s causes this straight-arrow behavior. Parkinson’s patients also eschew drinking, smoking and activities like gambling, perhaps because their bodies aren’t capable of producing dopamine. They also suffer from constipation from an early age.
Perhaps “bad” behavior is its own reward, in which case, I apologize to my son for knocking his 68% score on How Evil Are You? – with all his other medical problems, his “Evil” tendencies are probably keeping him alive.
Either that, or it’s people with Parkinson’s who made all the stupid rules in the first place about what’s good and what’s not, based on their own disease-ridden pathology.
Gives you something to think about, doesn’t it?