Reflecting on “cancers” within societies

Yesterday I was running some errands. I was searching for this particular thing and went to an area where this shop I needed to go to is. I parked there. As I was parking this outrageously loud motorcycle went past twice. I mean outrageously loud. Deafeningly loud. Abusively loud.

I – and tens of thousands of others – are victims of such abuse daily. That is the unfortunate reality in this “land of freedom”. What it really is is a land of cancer.

Such things – abusively loud vehicles which have been deliberately modified to be abusive – are cancers infecting our society.

Just as with any body there may be healthy parts and unhealthy parts, whenever I am abused by one of these sick people driving one of these vehicles I am reminded not of the good but of the cancer within society.

Such people are the cancer in society. There’s actually an important psychological reason why I think of it as cancer. When it occurs I try not to become angry. Instead I try to understand it within a context. That context has been a grocery store with all the different products along the aisles. There are many products. Some are healthier than others. Some are good for you. Others are total, noxious, toxic shit.

When you’re walking down the aisles of such a store you’re aware of all of this. And so when you encounter the noxious shit you just accept that that is part of the totality of the grocery store and forget about it. When I hear these abusively loud vehicles going past I just think of my city as a very large grocery store and these vehicles and the people driving them are the junk food. The most toxic, unhealthy, cancer-causing garbage you can find.

When I do that I don’t become angry. I just become aware momentarily of the fact that such noxious stuff exists, and then I forget it. Unfortunately, whether I like it or not, its like I have to walk down that aisle in the store past that horrific garbage. But at least I can keep on walking. Think of people who dwell there.

What I thought about yesterday wasn’t just the actual cancer – I was thinking about how different societies deal with cancer.

In an entire year of living in a town in Germany I never once experienced such abuse as occurs multiple times every day here. It does not exist. It would not exist because it simply would not be tolerated by anyone. It would immediately be recognized as insane and stopped.

Even more, I don’t think anyone would even think of doing it in the first place. The awareness is there – awareness of others, of one’s community, of one’s neighbors, of society – such that it simply wouldn’t be something anyone would think of doing.

I would say that that’s pretty healthy and normal. What is occurring here is not healthy, not normal, is extremely sick. Basically, this society here is sick with cancer, and it basically doesn’t care about it. The cancer is allowed to fester and spread. It is allowed to wreak havoc and destruction, harm upon the body. It may even be that such cancer is promoted and encouraged.

And so I just wonder – it would be interesting to go around the world and actually study and try to obtain metrics from various cultures – on how they deal with cancers. How do they keep themselves healthy? It would be interesting to know. I think there is a lot to learn.

Maybe we could constantly gather such knowledge and put it to good use to build healthy, strong, and fair societies free of cancer, lands which truly are lands of freedom and not just BS tripe parroted by manipulative a-wipes for the sake of grabbing power.