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Parasites infect our body politic, and do an amazing job of tricking US into DEFENDING THEM

[Cross-posted from The Anti-Establishment Center Community]

Blind faith in government and denial of reality continues to aid the 0.01% and the Govt-enabled ‪#‎CronyCrapitalists‬ in fleecing and controlling us.

Parasites are highly evolved, infect our body politic, and do an amazing job of tricking US into DEFENDING THEM:

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2008/06/03/parasitic-wasp-turns-caterpillars-into-headbanging-bodyguard/

See parasite guru Carl Zimmer:

“Parasites can castrate their hosts and then take over their minds. An inch-long fluke can fool our complex immune system into thinking it as harmless as our own blood. A wasp can insert its own genes into the cells of a caterpillar to shut down the caterpillar’s immune system. Only now are scientists thinking seriously about how parasites may be as important to ecosystems as lions and leopards. And only now are they realizing that parasites have been a dominant force, perhaps the dominant force, in the evolution of life. … ”

“Simply living within another organist—locating it, travelling through it, finding food and a mate inside, altering the cells that surround it, outwitting its defences—is a tremendous evolutionary accomplishment. But parasites such as Sacculina do more: they control their hosts, becoming in effect their new brains, and turning them into new creatures. It is as if the host itself is simply a puppet, and the parasite is the hand inside.”

http://www.thingsmeanalot.com/2010/03/parasite-rex-by-carl-zimmer.html
http://carlzimmer.com/books/parasiterex/excerpt.html

We have a great big commons problem that is extremely difficult to solve, not in the least because “good” people are fooled and WANT to keep being fooled.

[See my other posts on parasitism]

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