I believe that disease within the human body mirrors social, economic and environmental problems around the world, with particular types of disease having exact replicas within the exterior world. Understanding this is vital to shedding light on why various seemingly terrible and unspeakable actions are done in our world. By using disease within the microcosm, the human body, as a metaphor to explain societal ailments in the macrocosm, our world, we can begin to understand, and correct these pathologies that cause so much harm to many, and only benefit a few.
Many pathological socio-economic and geopolitical constructions in the world body are created because they are beneficial to a small group of individuals, who potentially have no long-term survival interest, only short-term goals. These groups can easily be compared to viruses, bacteria, and cancerous cells. Viruses, bacteria, and cancers take up a relatively miniscule percentage of the human body, but can still through their reproduction, and the processes they trigger, lead to the death of that human body.
However, for whatever reason, pathogens continue their routine even if by killing their host they may bring about their own destruction. While certainly many diseases can spread vectors from corpses, eventually a successful pathogen will deplete all of its fuel, leading to its self-destruction.
Understanding this essential attribute of pathogens enables one to understand the reason and logic behind so many of the global pathological constructions. For example; pollution of the environment and the acceleration of global warming may seem like a negative situation for everyone concerned, rich and poor. But in actuality, the richest, most empowered individuals greatly benefit from such a situation. For one thing, *everyone else*, from the middle class, the poor, even the middling rich, are simply either enemies to be marginalized, disempowered and destroyed, or resources to be utilized. Seeing this section of humanity, from the 90% on down, to be conservative, as the majority of the human body's healthy cells, and the concentrated, most wealthy and powerful as the initial pathogens, allows one to see the situation in perspective. From the standpoint of a virus (the top 1%, perhaps even .01%), if the majority environment is terribly polluted, the MAJORITY will struggle to survive; I, as the human equivalent of a virus, will have the resources to purchase the best land, to create a housing development with sufficient technology to deal with all the side-effects of pollution, and the resources to keep it guarded and separate.
However, the poorest will be dying by the droves just trying to obtain water, and what water they do procure will probably be terribly polluted, making them sick. The larger the percentage of the population I, the virus, can render into absolute poverty, complete destitution, the more power I wield in comparison. Those who struggle just to survive cannot muster any opposition or resistance. The pathological section of humanity is identical to the pathogens of the body. As a virus sickens the body it inhabits, the harder it is for that body to recover to health, and to neutralize the pathogen inhabiting it. The more cells that are sickened and die do not detract from the robustness of the pathogen in any way, shape or form; indeed, they foster a better environment for the pathogen to spread and survive.
Those with the most resources can always procure what is necessary for survival, and also obtain advantages which empower them above the rest. Thus for example, if the human pathogens defund public education, they disempower the majority by reducing their ability to be knowledgeable and skilled. However, possessing excessive resources, the pathogens do not suffer the same fate; they can spend the money necessary to obtain the best education for themselves and their children. Thus, a two-fold benefit occurs, as is the trend with these pathological behaviors; they disempower the rest while empowering themselves. This makes resistance more difficult.
In addition, most of these actions have knock-on, or domino effects. In the case of reducing the quality of public education, which is advantageous to obtaining a career, the side-effect is more people without jobs. This leads to poverty. Poverty leads to increased likelihood of criminal action by the poor to survive; without jobs to support them, and without the skills necessary to obtain a job, the alternatives are starvation or crime. Crime can be responded to with police force and imprisonment. Imprisonment fills up the jails. This both removes one's enemies, E.G., everyone else, and transforms them into a possible labor source. Prison labor has been on the rise in the United States in the last decade, and an imprisoned population is one that is controlled and even less able to resist. Thus the initial action of reducing the quality of public education has further knock-on effects which are advantageous to the human equivalent of pathogens.
This must be seen as the modus operandi of all pathological geopolitical and socio-economic actions.
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