There is a swine flu outbreak somewhere in Mexico or something and like 20 people in the US have gotten it. The media has blown this out of proportion because it’s only hospitalized one person in the US so far, and yet there’s already a concern. The flu pandemic of 1918 killed 40-50 million people. How many people has this swine flu actually killed worldwide? Sure, I’m all for an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. So it’s good that we are aware of this rare and interesting new flu, but the fear tactics being used to a relatively harmless flu, at least in America so far is kind of grandiose and exaggerated. I don’t know anything about the science of how a person can get a flu from a pig, but I’m sure it’s possible. The flu these days hardly ever kills anyone. It’s only when the flu is allowed to progress to pnemonia that it kills some elderly and very young children. We have the technology to cure and prevent a flue outbreak and living in this society has made our immune systems strong because of all the pollution we are subjected to from a very early age. Sure, this is a new strain we’ve never seen before, but we have the ability to treat it and beat it. So what’s the big deal?
With our current medical system, poorer people won’t be inclined to go to the hospital or the doctor for these kinds of ailments, which will allow the swine flu to spread among them. They don’t have insurance to go to the hospital or emergency room, so they’re more inclined to just lie in bed and fight it out. This is something our body is capable of, so there’s no harm, no foul. But it will allow the flu to spread to others. It’s not like the flu is really that bad, though. It’s relatively benign compared to other diseases and viruses, so I really don’t see the problem.
Viruses are nature’s way of weeding out a population. But the flu has been conquered years ago by modern science. I’m tired of all these scare tactics used by the media, trying to put the general public into a panic just to keep the world in a state of perpetual fear. I would understand if the flu had killed millions of people, but it is not even close to being a big deal yet. SARS killed less than 300 people as far as I know. 150,000 people die a day on average. More people die from our toxic environment each day than will die from some swine flu. I don’t see anything as a pandemic until it can actually put a dent in our population worldwide. It’s got to at least cut out 1% of our population to actually be considered a threat. And even then it’s not really a bad thing from the Earth’s perspective.
The Earth is going to try and fight back. This comes from the Gaia hypothesis that the Earth is a living thing and will fight back against us as a pesky species that is ruining it. But we are always one step ahead of all the viruses it can conjure up. We even have a way to treat AIDS now, which was a surefire way to reduce our population and cause a definite pandemic. A virus is always contained before it can do much damage. The Earth’s population control mechanisms are no match for us humans because we’ve outsmarted the Earth. We use the Earth against itself even when it is trying to exterminate part of us. This is what has led to a population explosion.
A population explosion leads to pandemics that are easily cured by our advances in technology. It is yet another cause of the gigantic numbers of people we have living ont his planet. If it weren’t for all these medical advances, many of the people alive today and even going a couple generations back, would be dead. It would probably have cut our population in half or even by 2/3. In the uncivilized world, people in these nature-based tribes hardly ever get out of balance, and if they do, they are brought back into balance by the forces of nature. It’s like a bowl, where the center is perfect balance and the further you try and stray from the center, the harder it is. But that’s when humans were servants of nature, not dominating it. Now that we dominate nature, we can go as far out of balance as we wish until we run out of all the things that allow us to go out of balance. And that’s what’s going to happen. Once we have nothing left to fight over, there will be a post-crash nature-based society because there will be no alternative.
What matters is what happens next is important because we can take many roads. We can keep living like nature and all other species, or we can once again rebuild this pandemic-creating society with nearly 7 billion people and counting, with malls and strip clubs. In order to make that choice wisely, we’ll need to be operating from a consciousness much higher than the one we have now. The materialistic consciousness needs to go away. The domination consciousness needs to fade. The agricultural-industrial complex needs to be gone completely. Man the toolmaker needs to check out of the world’s hotel. We should become land dolphins.
But what are land dolphins? Land dolphins would be a highly intelligent species that uses no tools and feeds of the bounty of the Earth. We would have to greatly lower our population, but a crash would do that anyway. But if we can become stewards of the Earth and not dictators of it, we will learn to live and love the place we’re in and be able to sustain it for millions, possibly billions of years. The human race towards progress and neverending innovations is going to come to a halt at some point. It’s just common sense. It’s what we do afterwards that’s most important. I don’t feel like everyone’s going to wake up one day and stop this society, so there will be a crash. I just hope the people who survive that crash know what they’re doing so that this population explosion and hellish world doesn’t come back into existence. It would seem rather pointless to not learn anything from this society, to just keep crashing and burning for all eternity. We’re in this crazy world to learn something, that this world we’ve created is wrong. I just hope the message gets through.
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