There are a quite a few interesting facts about biological beings. All biological beings are attracted to light this phenomena is called phototaxis. In addition all biological beings are opportunist, or lazy. If you look at ants they immediately capitalize on some spilled sugar or some dead critter. City pigeons who have been decorated in wars for carrying important messages now are just your average city beggar. But yet they maintain a balance.
If we look at us humans we have the same traits as all the other biological beings, if we find an unlimited supply of food, we multiply and don’t analyze the situation to see if it’s going to work, yet we have the largest brain. If we look at Ireland with it great famine, they got the problem with the introduction of the potato. They used mono-cultures and when a spore landed on its coasts killed all potato cultures. It was short and devastating. It killed the potato cultures which lead to a lot of deaths among the population. It looked exactly as an epidemic. But this was a local epidemic, and very focused. The rest of the human population had no problems. A more wide spread epidemic was the bubonic plague. This wasn’t focused, and it spread throughout Europe and it cut its population in half. If you look at the common cold it is such a small bug perhaps millions of times lighter than the human body but it brings it down by sheer numbers. If we return to the bubonic plague and the entire population of Europe we can see that the population was the organism and the plague was the pathogen. If we look trough history we can find numerous examples of imbalances which keep on occurring. Perhaps it is evolution and that it is how biological beings grow stronger or adapt to their environment. But all organisms are composed of smaller organisms. All of them have a job to do in order for the hole to survive. The imbalance is produced when one of them gets lazy and tries to delegate its job on another. It might work for a while but it usually comes with a catch, the lazier or clever organism ends up destroying the ecosystem, which sometimes is causing its own death. There are numerous examples where parasites never kill their host, because they need to live, not to devour and over-consume. When dolphins hunt and feed they take turns. The entire pack guards the bank of fish keeping them together while only one feeds, and they take turns, they don’t delegate while they have a better job.
We humans have a big problem, we are perhaps the laziest and we indulge the most in easiness, consumerism and delegation. There is a cacophony of laws, departments, governments that all failed or are failing because we’re lazy, greedy and cunning. We have farms and meat processing plants which haven’t met any kind standards in years. We have hospitals on top of hospitals treating food related diseases. We allow patents over some artificial GMOs and we go on which-hunts of organic farmers and destroy them financially. And it’s all shrouded in a cloud a clever legislation that protects this over-expanding parasitical crutch that is slowly killing us, and we just can’t seem to see it. And yet we still go and buy the food from a store and we want it tender and juicy, to be almost effortlessly to eat. All these will have a price to pay either now or later. Why, because there are no alternatives. Nothing is produced naturally anymore. The USDA is getting sued if it’s trying to enforce any kind of legislature because it causes profit losses. Is like the Wild West, everybody for himself. Read about Kevin’s law.
The food quality is constantly decreasing, no wonder why cancer, diabetes, and heart disease are the modern day top killers. There are advertisements informing to save this species or that species. And governments are allocating money fill those species with antibiotics. That is just a band aid, the ecosystem is disrupted. Eventually all these band aids will fail if we don’t address the root problem. And the effects will be exactly like Katrina breaking the New Orleans levies, but only at a global level. And instead of water will be a second Great Flood of blood and puss. Exactly like in the artificially overgrown cow’s udder, which has been fed some new genetically modified protein that causes its udder to produce 17 times more milk which you I and newborns drink everyday. The root problems are constant campaigns of public disinformation orchestrated by major interests inside and outside of governments. On the other hand there are the perpetrators which are allowed to produce bad quality food. This requires more and more expensive medicine, which require better medical insurance, which generates more and more profit, and supplies more and more people in key places to keep this cancer alive. First of all, why are cigarettes still on shelves? They should be outlawed, or perhaps the chemicals within should be outlawed. Why animal farms are still using antibiotics to increase their food production? Why is there no education in school about candy sugar and its effects? Why aren’t there companies which are humane towards their consumers? Why are mercury fillings allowed? Why are GMOs still legal? Why is FDA in place if I have to ask these questions? The answer is indolence, greed, delegation of responsibilities, lack of discipline, and lack of empathy on fellow humans.
If we look at the Earth as a larger organism and at us as the pest, we are behaving like an epidemic. We pollute the Earth more and more. We are multiplying excessively and we overeat everything. We are the great epidemic; we’re not localized and only attacking one niche. We over-fish our oceans and pollute them at the same time, is like we want to make sure there will be nothing left after we’re gone. The same way viruses and bugs multiply and pollute one human body until it brings it in the brink of death. That body either dies, killing the bug with it, or reacts back by increasing its temperature and killing the bug. Isn’t Earth increasing its temperature, aren’t we constantly talking about global warming? If you look at the life of the planet and our life it is perhaps the same ratio as the ratio between a human life and the life of an individual virus. What do all epidemics have in common? I think we all know, they end. We are so reliant on our sensory organs that we ignore the most important one. Our brain. Our brain is the only one that can analyze and get the clear picture of our environment. We can’t rely on our eyes, because for the longest time they told us the Earth was flat. Our brain with its mathematical abilities exposed the truth of how our world really works. It would be ironic if a million years of now a super advanced species will look back at our fossils and say how could they miss the mark so badly? Because if we go extinct, we go extinct because of lack of brain usage, yet we have the largest. We are the only species that chooses to put a band aid on its survival instead of doing the right thing, and it is all because of greed, laziness, comfort and things we indulge in.
