4. Carcinoma

Carcinoma

Cancer has been among us for a long, long time. You would think that folks would come to understand that cancer is part of life, that it is a natural thing. Instead, we fight like mad to defeat the scourge that ravages lives, spending huge amounts of money and time to find cures for the various forms of this crab-like-monster system.

We do not accept cancer as a natural system to be tolerated.

We have accepted the coercive abrogation of our natural self-ownership for the benefit of the ‘common good’ for a long, long time. We have accepted that other people have the right to use our labor and our property in exchange for their promises. We have accepted that we have a duty to labor for the common good to the best of our abilities and that we have a duty to appreciate what we receive as we need. We have accepted these beliefs for most of our history.

We accept progressivism, a belief that aggressive state interventions into the market and private voluntary behavior will improve human life, as a natural system to be tolerated.

Both systems are parasitic, feeding on bodies.

Some cancers mimic other systems. For example, folks have mistaken lung cancer for pneumonia, bronchitis, or other serious ailments. Cancer starts out as a small anomaly, usually benign, usually unnoticed. The anomaly becomes malignant, displacing/devouring flesh, spreading through-out its host-body until the body dies. If the body owner notices and excises or neutralizes the anomaly in time, his body continues to live.

People try to keep from getting cancer, and if that fails, they try to get rid of it without dying.

Progressivism mimics other systems. For example, folks have mistaken progressivism for patriotism, communitarianism, or other collectivist systems. Progressivism starts out benign, providing a way for people to help other people, by using other people’s resources. The system grows, consuming more resources from more people. Eventually productive resources become near-extinct. If the body politic understand that they are being robbed and are able to refuse to continue to be robbed, they continue to live.

People try to live in liberty. Failing that, they try to cope without dying.

2009.07.14

rev 2017.04.22

rev 2018.11.28