[lit-ideas] The Physiology of War
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:05:22 -0400
The list sometimes receives posts on the psychoanalytic roots of
war, but the physiological roots of war are seldom discussed.
Our bodies are battlefields, strewn with the corpses of invader and
defender (pus). Our immune system is constantly fighting off
invasion, and its component cells include the immunological
equivalent of soldiers, generals, and CIA.
There are, for example, ingenious things called neutrafils, which
manufacture and deploy bleach and peroxide (bombs or chemical
weapons) to use against heavy invasions.
Our immune system even has military historians, like T-cells, which
remember every battle we've ever fought and recall the best strategy
to combat a particular invasion.
In short, if our bodies weren't engaged in 24/7/365 war, we'd be
like rotting blue cheese. Deader than a boiled mackerel.
This means that even the most nonviolent Jain priest, feeding the
fleas in his special mattress, is also routinely killing all kinds
of bacteria in his bloodstream. His body, because it is alive, is a
battlefield just like yours and mine.
Eric
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