Something has gone wrong with the human experiment. Problems worsen, like the days before a flu kicks into high gear, so we tighten our belts and charge ahead as best we can. Doubt itches and burns and infects our sleep, but we can't find a clear source of the problem. We know we do not feel well, and even use the term sickness. Could it be we're infected with a thought-virus?

Diseases are organisms which have adapted to a parasitic role. While a cold makes you sick, it is living off of your nutrients and spreading outside of you. Each sneeze spreads it further, and every meal goes in part to the cold. Idea viruses live in your mind and spread through your acts. Every time you go into work and every person seems to be repeating a clever phrase from a television comic or radio commentator, you have seen the thought-virus in action.

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I hope I don't catch the Tom Jones virus

I'm addicted to love

Our best thinkers, artists and writers have given us other things to live for, outside of the public ego. Ancient Greek philosophers like Plato noted its presence when they spoke of a public mythos of shadows in the parable of the cave. We have to stop being wimps who do what is convenient for us and ignore the consequences of a gradually sickening society. Until we do this, the symptoms will continue -- and eventually kill us.

Interesting quote but I have to tell you it is human nature to do what is convenient

It is human nature to want to be comfortable and only until things become extremely uncomfortable will you see a change in attitude (aka war and bloodshed )

Human nature is very very predictable

davefromthegrave said:

Robert Palmer owns you.