A good friend of mine’s mother just died of cancer. This adds to a long list of loved ones who are either afflicted now, or have died in the recent past. I don’t know how to communicate how terrible this is because I’ve been getting news like this almost every week now. I’m starting to get pissed off.

When a cell is confronted with a hostile environment, it does one of three things: adapt, mutate, or die. Cancer is a particularly vicious mutation that causes the cell to not know when to stop growing/reproducing. Research efforts to cure cancer are being conducted by clever cell biologists, focusing on the various genetic and protein mechanisms involved in this process. But nobody asks WHY human cells are mutating more and more, i.e. why are our bodies host to so many more toxins than they were a hundred years ago?

Take a wild guess. If we continue to allow pesticides, heavy metals and other toxic chemicals (such as those produced by the manufacture of computers, plastics, etc.) to seep into air and the groundwater, there will continue to be tragic consequences. Cancer is a serious SOCIAL PROBLEM that will only get worse, just like global warming. This shit is ruining alot of people’s  lives, but people don’t ever look straight at the issue.

This Man/Nature dichotomy is total ideological bullshit, and someone needs to do some serious liberal-arts style deconstructing of it on a major scale, in a way that will make people understand.