IninewCrow

A university town full of young people … Grenada is an amazing place with some great graffiti throughout the city. They don’t just mark up the city, they tag buildings with art.

So you’re saying I should live at the equator

No, no … don’t worry about it. It’s a condition called Pulmonary Fibrosis and it is actually rare-ish

It’s also not tied to any one fungus, virus, bacteria or whatever. It’s just a chance infection of whatever kind that invades your lung system, and causes a run-away reaction with your immune system. The infection turns on the immune system and for whatever reason, the immune system goes haywire and can’t turn itself off so it just keeps attacking even after the original infection is gone. It’s common in the lungs because when you think about it and study it, the lungs and lung tissue are very delicate and intricate biology that exists in a very narrow balance between being healthy and abnormal. As soon as you upset that balance, its either very difficult or impossible to get it back.

Infections like this can be caused by colds and flus but also from funguses and mold and dust spores. A well known condition is called ‘Pigeon Lung’ from pigeon breeders who breathe in a lot of dust from pigeon droppings.

I have a doctor friend who warned me years ago … ‘do your best to avoid colds, flus, viruses and bacterial infections’ … even if you are fit and healthy and young. Every infection in your lungs is a lottery and if you get lucky and get infected with something that screws up your system, it will affect your life forever.

My wife got infected with a viral infection on a trip to Morocco about six years ago. We both got sick with it. It was bad but not that bad. I got over it but she just never stopped coughing. A year later she was still coughing and we looked into it and she had lung scarring. The doctors then told us all about these conditions and now she has Pulmonary Fibrosis. She is perpetually coughing, she lives with it but it is a constant worry we have to live with now.

So next time you go out in public remember that any flu, cold, covid, virus, whatever is a lottery that can screw with your life.

It actually escalates over months or years … my wife had it and since then we’ve learned that any lung infection you get - fungal, bacterial, viral, chemical, mineral - is all like playing a disease lottery. Chances are pretty high for everyone to not get anything and no after effects when you recover. However every once in a while, you get lucky and whatever infection completely screws the immune response in your lungs and it turns into a permanent infection. When that happens, it may or may not be the original infection but it could just be your own immune system that has just lost balance and is now fighting against your own body. Whatever it is, it causes permanent scarring and the scarring grows over time until you lose the ability to breathe and drown to death.

All because of a chance infection in an unlucky lottery you happen to win.

It comes back as a fungus that drifts deep into your lungs causing a permanent infection and scarring.

That’s the great equalizer of imaginary money … it requires a global system to manage it and make it possible and an entire population of people who believe in it and have faith it, much like a religion of sorts … if the system falters, their money dies with it … if the people lose faith, their wealth disappears as well.

That and global nuclear war that just sends every digital system no matter how robust back a hundred years and virtually vapourizing a lot of imaginary wealth for a lot of wealthy people.

In my personal opinion, its the only thing that keeps us from destroying ourselves … they know if they try to take all wealth, theirs will disappear … they also know that if we lose faith in the system, nothing is worth anything any more … they also know that if we all gain a bit of wealth, they lose power over us

So leaders and wealthy elites have to walk a fine line between fleecing us on a regular basis and giving us just enough to keep holding faith in the system.

It’s funny when you think about it … imaginary wealth is what caused all these problems … but its also imaginary wealth that is preventing us from destroying ourselves

It’s like what Homer Simpson famously said about alcohol … “Alcohol the cause of and solution to … all of life’s problems”

Also what no one ever wants to admit is that this kind of system can only be carried out for so long before it collapses on its own.

If you start filling a million gallon wine glass on top of a bunch of small glasses, eventually you’ll just crush and destroy everything at the bottom.

I like to imagine it as constructing a building. We keep building higher and higher, trying our best to place the richest at the very top and ever higher floor. To make it work, we keep taking building material from the foundation to build the penthouse. As the penthouse becomes higher and higher, heavier and more lavish, the foundation becomes thinner, smaller and weaker.

At one point we’ll have an absolutely beautiful penthouse for a handful of people, resting on a very thin foundation that will eventually fail, fall and destroy everything and everyone.

Everyone forgets that we are part of the remaining third.

We aren’t separate from the animal kingdom, we are just another species. So if everything, or a good percentage of everything dies, so will we.

This is also implying that common everyday people actually have control or can influence the situation.

While a wealthy few in the world are the ones that can actually drive change for the better but refuse to because it would affect their wealth and power.

90% of the population wants to do something

10% of the population owns everything

The 10% who have all the control don’t mind watching the world burn as long as they keep their mansion.

90% of the population can’t do anything because they don’t have the wealth to influence anything

100% of the world is completely fine with this situation.