Investigators at the Impulse Institute at Columbia and Pfizer quietly celebrated the FDA approval of Despondex, the first of a new generation of drugs growing out of the “new thinking” movement. NTM builds on success and counteracts excess of all kinds.
NTM drugs treat anti-syndromes, that is human illnesses that represent the opposites of “sicknesses.” The idea began with Flatland: From Many Dimensions a novel by the English thinker, Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as “A Square”,[1] Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the malfunctions of a society built on perception of social dimensions as real. Among the innovations in Flatland were the use of hospitals to treat antisocial behavior, now a major principle of government in the People’s Republic of China.