Surgical Strike

We’re supposed to be impressed by the precision of military smart bombs and to swallow the myth that these help to make our world a safer place. Computer screen pilots guide drones to their targets 10,000 miles away so that terrorists stay off our streets in the West. We’ve learned to use the most sophisticated technology to get our revenge in first but we’re slow to understand the connection between stirring up wars and coping with the resulting refugee crisis. For several years I’ve used the idea of a healthy human body as a metaphor for how things can be done right. I’ve also come to understand that our allopathic approach to cancer and most chronic diseases is wrong. Culturally we’re fed the idea that the ‘War against cancer’ will one day be won and we’re encouraged to wear our pink ribbons and donate generously for research into the cure. In the meantime improving technology allows us to accurately locate the tumours so that precision surgery can remove them while chemotherapy mops up any residual cancer cells. Modern oncology over-claims for the effectiveness of its ‘one-two’ knockout procedures and tens of thousands are enslaved to lifelong prescriptions for drugs with debilitating side effects. No thank you, there has to be a better way. Surprisingly, just by scratching below the surface, one finds that there are many complimentary therapies with much more favourable outcomes. By far the most effective preventive measure is good nutrition. Not only does it prevent most chronic diseases, but it can often reverse long established disease processes and offer a drug-free and healthy life. But it certainly doesn’t stop with physical nutrition. Mental and Spiritual nutrition equips us to think clearly and to question the cultural memes that unconsciously control our everyday existence. Stressful living causes chronic disease by constantly flooding the body with hormones intended to provide protection against short term threats. Rather than medicating the symptoms we should be removing the causes of illness. No illness means no need of medication – and there’s the catch. If no one’s sick then there’s no money to be made, nor intrusive surgical procedures to be performed. We all know that ‘Your Health is Your Wealth’, but our economy requires that we make people sick – Shame! Just as there’s no money in health, there’s no money in peace. Peace doesn’t sell bombs. If peace broke out the world might build respect and communication among its peoples. We might turn our energies to solving our problems instead of profiting from them. That’s a truly subversive idea. You’d think that having pondered such ideas for millennia, we’d have started to do what works? Nope; it’s too difficult and there’s no money in it. Anyway, a peaceful world makes for a boring 6 o’clock news. Humanity’s greed is rapidly consuming available resources and destroying the natural habitat of thousands of species the world over. Rather than celebrating and protecting the diversity of the natural world we seem hell bent on its exploitation, even to the point of death. We show the same contempt for our own species as we spread fear of others and respond with protectionism. Apartheid, between ‘Haves and Have Nots’ is alive and well. But let’s not change course too rapidly. Instead let’s, poison some cells, cut out some tumours, drop some more smart bombs, kill some baddies and tell the masses that we’re winning. It’s better for the quarterly results.