Wilkipedia introduces and defines cancer as thus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer):
Cancer /ˈkà ¦nsÉ „ r/ , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a term for a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the body through the lymphatic system or bloodstream.
Healthy cells control their own growth and will destroy themselves if they become unhealthy. Cell division is a complex process that is normally tightly regulated. Cancer occurs when problems in the genes of a cell prevent these controls from functioning properly.
Cancer is "growth gone wild." Cells that once were functioning according to the body's need for some reason become monstrous invaders of that body. The result is that those once healthy cells destroy the body and themselves.
Can we apply this definition to the West's current day Wall Street mentality? What is corporate business about if not unlimited growth? And the result is?
Nothing less than devastation of the environment and the murderous exploits of people, animals, plants and the land that mothers all these precious beings.
The Earth fits the criteria for a diagnosis of cancer. We are that cancer. The disease has been since well before the Roman and Greek Empires and cultures. European and Middle Eastern populations have notoriously espoused a "divide and conquer" mentality in which the goal was to "rule the world." Along with this ethos of conquest has come the devastation of lands across the planet to the point that we are now seeing thousands of species going extinct while thousands more are identified as in danger to become extinct. And, what is the attitude driving us towards this destruction? The attitude is nothing less than the desire for unlimited growth.
Even the sky is not the limit anymore. Upon any microchip inhabiting the body of a computer is financial data to which we can just keep adding zeros. The sky is no longer the limit. Only infinity places boundaries to our illusionary economy based on dots and dashes on a microchip
Yes, the Roman Empire has conquered the world. Oh, it used its different Kings, Queens, Emperors, Supreme Court Judges, bought and sold congress men and women alongside its Presidents to make its will law. But it has won. And, the Earth is dying and we Romanized cancer cells are going to die right along with it.
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