Sick Training

Probing  Eyes, Needles and Knifes

Sick training begins early in life. Everyone involved is concerned. Medical attendants carefully observe every vital sign and temperature variation from our mothers’ first sign of pregnancy. From then on we can look forward to probing eyes, needles, life-saving machines and drug medicine as features of our maintenance.

Duty

We find out being sick pays off with the reward of attention. Why the attention on sickness?  We are implanted with the responsibility to be our brother’s keeper, in sickness and in health, till death parted. It is an inborn duty, a prerequisite in living creatures where birth occurs in a state of dependence. A state of dependence rewards the sick, even those playing sick. A state of love and empathy has created systems that change the natural cycle of life. The issue becomes, when should we save life?

In human society the following forms the matrix of sick training:

• Distrust of  nature
• Saving life
• Extending life
• Nurturing

Trust & Terrain

When wild animals are born to dependence they grow to independence. They are spared many of the rigors of old age as they are allowed to die naturally. The wild kingdoms of plants and animals survive in the context of natures’ oldest law, (the survival of the fittest). Nature does not distrust nature. Nature simply (is) and all her products must comply with the terrain provided. When these same plants and animals come under human care they are swept into dependency because those species could not survive without human intervention.

Millions of species of life have come and gone as their ability to adapt failed. Humankind begets dependence. Mankind does not trust nature and is most confident when changing it. We are the only animal that saves life, extends live, and spends life as caretakers to create and prolong dependency.

The Walking Dead

From this matrix medical science is able to create legions of walking dead, those alive that could not survive without the care of their fellow man. This attempt to heal from outside nature changes the structure of human life in endless ways. Entire monstrous industries bleed the well to feed the sick.

Humankind is empathetic to the problems of sick people. When we are crossing the border between independence and dependence we have no way of confirming the long term duration of dependence, thus the dilemma. What will you do?