I remember when I was a per-teen I got these intense growth
pains. It was this numbing feeling in my legs; almost as if someone is
sitting on them and simultaneously stretching them out. It was hell and I
would lay there crying praying it would stop. And somebody listened
because at only 1,61 meters I would say it stopped prematurely.
So I associated growth with pain all my life. You can imagine my surprise when I got to university
and learnt that the answer to all the problems facing our world, the answer to
mal nutrient, poverty, child abuse, war even environmental degradation was…
GROWTH.
"Just grow..." the fat economist would smirk. "All this world need is growth, kid, and
then everybody will have more because you grew.
The market will deliver!"
You know what the capitalist system done? It grew
alright, but while some people got the length, others got the pain. While
some got the bargain, others paid for it. While some got away with
murder, others laid dead (probably in a ditch). The system is not the
answer - it is the problem. Growth is never as simple as you think, there
is always pain accompanying it and people praying for it to stop. Schumpeter said the capitalist system will
fall apart not because it is incompetent but because it is too powerful.
I am not some kind of hippie or crazy one-eyed witch, I am
not a communist, I am not an anarchist or a nationalist or a Zionist, or a
religious fundamentalist, I am not labeled in any way. I am one thing – and one thing alone – I am
against what we are doing right now.
The funny thing about excessive growth in the human body is
that is not that rare. We just don’t
call it excessive growth, we call it cancer.
Cancer is a broad range of illnesses, all involving unregulated cell
growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, which frequently end with
death. I know I am short and I don’t
mind because if a human grows and grows and grows and grows… they will soon
have to go for chemotherapy. Cancer has
permeated in our society
