Perhaps at no
time in history is the Darwinian Theory more appropriate. We are in a war for
survival-survival of the fittest. However, the cards are stacked against us and
it is not nature that is determining the outcome.
America’s approach to war of any kind
does not change. Good versus Evil. We are good, they are evil. We see this
approach in the war on terror in Iraq. In order to root out the so-called “evil ones”,
America’s approach to health is the same.
Good germs versus bad germs. How simplistic. So we must flood the body with
toxic remedies in order to cure the body of its evil ailments. In other words, we
end up destroying the body since it is difficult to destroy the “bad germs”
without affecting those that are beneficial. You see they also look alike.
Meanwhile as America continues to pollute the earth, water, air and the food that we
eat, they deny us access to good health. This is killing on a grander scale.
On an even more
personal level is the use of bioweapons. You see all is fair in love and war and
victory must be obtained at any cost. We can refer to bioweapons not only as
the genetically-modified organisms that are affecting people of color, but the
pharmaceutical drugs that are being used to alleviate the symptoms of natural and
manufactured diseases. Manufactured diseases include those that result from the
allowable pollution of our rivers and streams, fish and fowl, soils and plants
and our air, our precious air. This is killing on an even grander scale.
We are in the
fight for our lives. Survival of the fittest will be those who are left standing
in a barren world. Unfit for life as we know it. Look around you. Look at your
neighbour. How many people do you know in “perfect health”? I only know of
one. Will there be anyone left since we are all so much “alike”?
Fortunately, in the end there will
no longer be an America, as we know it, to wage war.
Kiwanuka R.G. Lewis
December 2004