SpheresOfBalance wrote: I see that it's mans SELFISHNESS that is the origin of his problems, and I also see that the cause of this selfishness is the fear of his own mortality. .
I agree to your suggestion that it's man's SELFISHNESS that is the origin of his problems;I disagree to your suggestion that the cause of this selfishness is the fear of his own mortality.
Never in the history of mankind have we faced so great a danger to our liberties, to our way of life, to our very existence an enemy so evil and so desperate, that no lie, no form of trickery, no deception is too great for them; to them the ends justify the means: they belong to the category of parasites, namely the modern people.
Human society has become parasitic at some stage in the civilized epochs and the process is massively spreading in modern history. Like the germs present in the highly degenerating municipal waste dump or like the people living in air conditioned and highly the consumerist lifestyle environment, modern people remain addicted to their mechanical environment and they cannot exist in free natural environment.
Among the millions of species in nature, including the humans, it is only the modern man who depends exclusively on the exploitation of another of his own species for his survival. As a widespread social malice, institutionalized by the state and societies, exploitation of man by man is largely a modern history phenomenon, thanks to the development of modern science and modern hi-tech market that patronized exploitation as its main plank of progress. Otherwise, for millions of years, man lived exploiting or feeding on only nature and on other species.
And, as this exploitation peaked with sophistication and techniques, with the help of modern science and market, the malice or the virus began to encroach even the top parasites, namely, the exploiters and their leaders— the developed nations headed by America, that are the worst hit by this vicious process. For example, today genetically altered foods are considered to be creating various serious health problems. However, while listing countries with Genetically Altered Foods and with having scores of genetically altered foods and products being introduced around the world, United States with 50+ such foods in total comes first in the list followed by Canada with 30 foods and Japan with 22 varieties of 6 crops, including soy.
A parasite is not a species, but a form of life, which preys upon many other different species. Weeds and parasites are human creations and man’s disobedience of the ‘laws of nature’ is polluting the original or natural life forms or designs of plants and animals. With regard to parasites, naturalists have long recognized what is called retrogressive metamorphosis; and parasites are as a rule admitted to be instances of degeneration.
As the parasite is always smaller and weaker than its host, modern man, a much reduced human species but with the help of modern science and market that facilitate the unfit to become mechanically fit, has ended up an effective and powerful parasite.
A parasite is a much reduced and simpler species of the same kind from which it evolved. The understanding capacity of the parasite is much lower than that of the parental species from which it evolved. Its world and its cognition capacity is severely limited to the world around it, in which, however it is an expert for exploitation for its own benefit. And it is a much self-centered and short-sighted species. Thus, it is always in search of hosts for exploitation and survival. For example, the colonialists, when they realized the fact that the exploitation on their respective lands and people got saturated, went to ‘undeveloped’ parts of the world in search of host and converted those nations as colonies fit for exploitation. Modern man is going to the moon and trying to reach other planets in search of host (extra-terrestrial life) realizing the mortal fact that his life by exploitation of planet Earth and its inhabitants has reached tipping points. Sensing hard days ahead, synthetic medical industry is going places in search of hosts (sick people) and thus spreading sickness or making favorable environment for the industry to survive in a sick world.
Today the parasitic infection of human society is chronic and global. The most alarming problem before the world today is that its leader, namely, the hi-tech modern man is such a highly reduced, literally, duplicate human species—a parasite that has outgrown its host—that he simply cannot understand the real problems faced by mankind today, let alone be able to solve them. The typical modern man is such a devious parasite that it can only thrive on problems of another man.
The concept of parasitism is defined as the degenerated system of existence. This book presents the various facets of shapes that the chronic stage of professionalism has reached by converting the once wholly productive and organic ‘noble’ mankind as now turned massively parasitic, and also exposes the looming catastrophic dangers it poses. Putting it plainly, modernism may be summarized as a super bug that has far outgrown its host, namely, the human society. That is, mankind today is suffering from an advanced stage of parasitic infection by the parasites of its own kind.
The present health care system is ill equipped to deal with this crisis, as it is not the conventional kinds of parasites like worms, insects, bacteria or virus that are the culprits, but the new parasites are humans or the man-made systems against which our conventional doctors are not familiar. For example, while approaching a doctor in getting some health care remedies, one has to be a super doctor, not only to fight the increasing number of new diseases but also to escape from the machinations of doctors and the highly manipulative medical industry.
Today one has to be a super lawyer to escape from the machinations of the present laws and lawyers; you have to be a super politician to escape from the machinations of modern politics and its godfathers. It is for no other reason Michael Ellner wrote: “Everything is upside down in today’s world. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, major media destroy information and priests destroy spirituality.”
One of the more interesting facets of parasitism is that the parasite lives an existence which often goes beyond the customary laws of nature and of man. As a parasite, modern man has a self-destructive trait. Simply put, we see more of evil than the doing good. We feel closer to evil, than to the goodness.
“They’re like locusts. They’re moving from planet to planet... their whole civilization. After they’ve consumed every natural resource, they move on...”—former U.S. President, Thomas Whitmore was thus quoted in Independence Day. Perhaps the above quote from the movie “Independence Day” won’t ever fully describe human civilization. However, right now, humanity is on that path to become a locust-like, parasitic society that will consume the resources of continent after continent, leaving behind each one a useless, polluted, toxic wasteland. Given the pattern and fashion by which he lives today, modern man is proving to be a cancerous virus that is fast vitiating and turning modern society into a giant tumor on this planet. The history of modern society is fast ending up as the story of the once beautiful and live planet that is being turned into a fragile, barren and lifeless synthetic matter.
Modern man, for the moment’s pleasure and escape, is fouling his own nest. Over-consumption and consumerism permeate modern culture. As a result of our devotion to consumerism, the movement into cities, and the loss of an appropriate worldview, our connection to the rest of the living planet has been severed. It is not surprising that the sites once occupied by most of the great cities of antiquity are now deserts. The impact of our modern industrial cities on their environment is, of course, very much greater and correspondingly more destructive.
Thus today man, as a typical parasite, does not live; he works. He works not for making something for himself but for making something for selling to others to make money so that he can buy something made by others for his consumption—a typical process of mutual exploitation. There are reportedly exclusively single item producing nations, like the machine-only producing Japan, rubber and palm oil only producing Malaysia etc. Thus, in modern society, everyone is a middleman, just a mechanically functioning machine or, literally, a half man or a duplicate man, and every nation is a giant inhuman market system.
Today not many are living with a minds but with a sharpened brains—for exploitation or parasitism. And this exactly is the history of modern society the core characteristic of which is middlemanism—an indirect life process of mutual exploitation. Modern life, through mutual exploitation, has landed mankind at what it is today. So the concern today is no longer the content but the look, the package; the concern today is no longer the well being but the “good” presentation; the concern today is no longer for future but only for the here and the now.
Parasitism and predation of one group upon another was once been the social practice of only a very small group of human population in the early period of civilization and never been a general social pattern of social existence in the millions of years long human way of life.
However today, the entire modern social system has not only become an extortion racket designed to enrich the smart middlemen at the expense of productive members of society, but has, in the ensuing parasitical culture, turned the rest of the present human population also as parasites, albeit as of a passive variety. When, as political racketeers, economic cannibals and social parasites, the smart middlemen become richer, by selling and destroying everything natural and life-sustaining for a buck, the entire humanity becomes poorer.
In the past, man lived mostly as hunter gatherer, as nomadic or in particular clan-centered small settlements, and thus always away from the mechanical systems of rulers who were confined to small towns. And thus almost 99 percent of human population, in the millions of years long human history, prior to modern history, were productive species—not parasitic.
And yes, I'm being serious, it just seems kind of funny that I should be saying this about myself, but I try and be honest at all costs.