Choromosone fear, my lovely dear.

Choromosone fear, my lovely dear.
The end is near,
Yet when behavior strikes,
We are not yet alike.

~S. Oakshire, today

I read today that whenever animals raise their testosterone levels to fight, they become more vulnerable to infection, cancer and heart disease.

I wonder if the same is true of societies that raise their armies to fight wars. Do those societies become more prone to develop infection, cancer, and heart disease. Or, perhaps as their political correlaries might be called; corruption, greed, and corporate-government sloth.

In the wake of Katrina, tax-cuts for the rich, war against a country that never attacked us, record numbers of bankrupcies (driven this year by a new bankruptcy bill developed by the disease that created it, i.e. the credit card companies), nepotism, and corruption (Delay, Frist, Abramoff to name only the most celebrated), it seems amazingly clear.

When the Bush war-crime family decided to launch their two-front war on Iraq and the American family, they made all of us more vulnerable to infection, cancer and heart disease.

It's a pity. So many diseases are preventable and cheap. I guess the problem given our capitalist system is that there is no "incentive" for anyone to pour resources to strenghtening our country's immune system from infection, cancer, and heart disease. But what about religion as a group of individuals who share the same faith and spirituality. Don't they have a greater "incentive" to help no matter the political system in place?

Apparently they do not. As conservative Christians, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews support the modern-day Republican Party (an idealogical exercise in selfishness), they also support torture, war, killing civilians, a depleted infrastructure, dilapidated inner-city schools, less insuranc for more money and on and on. In short, the pathway to hell is being paved by religions who either outwardly or tacity support corruption, greed, and corporate-government sloth. It becomes apparent that the people who make up these religions care nothing for their stated goals. They use their stated goals as blunt-force objects of power.

Death fear no one,
Death welcome everyone,
Death be meth,
Death on earth be corruption, greed, and bad deeds.
Who hath planted this evil seed?

S. Oakshire ~ today