The Cancer Stage of Economic Parasitism, 22

This failure of our social immune system to recognise and respond to the cancerous form of capitalism is understandable once we realise that the surveillance and communication organs of host social bodies across the world, as they now function, are incapable of recognising the nature and patterns of the disease. That is, capitalist−organised media and information systems select for dissemination only messages compatible with the capitalist organisation of social bodies.” After all, whether everyone has a price or not, now someone has the money; and the more money someone has, the more people can be educated into having a price.
Then we have the paradox we couldn’t help feeling for quite some time now, for the very good reason that we’re in it over our heads: the hamster wheel, or, to put it in Nuri’s poignant words, the Red Queen dilemma. In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, “the Red Queen runs faster and faster to stay in the same place. A hyperkinetic culture as now universally perceived by all (noted early on by e.g. Toffler's Future Shock, 1970, or recently in Gleick's Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, 1999) is therefore a conceivable symptom of a money parasite!” Increasingly the hamster wheel we’re feeling imprisoned inside is leading us to challenge the myth of “growth”, and not only because there can be no infinite growth in a world of finite resources. How much of that “growth” is feeding the parasite to the detriment of its victims? First, growth can disguise the presence of the parasite; second, growth can be designed to feed it; third, growth can be designed to enable, facilitate and support the implementation of its plans. And how much of the “growth” besieging us is so in the first place? “The vast and awesome technological achievements of the 20thcentury take on an entirely new light if one considers they can be mechanisms for optimizing parasitism efficiency!” And “the streamlining of technology… can be more conducive to slavery systems.”