“Radical increases in fungal metaphors, diseases, activity and awareness are indicative of something the humans are peculiarly situated to overlook. Cancers kill things whose environments are bad developmental bets. That’s simply a fact. Fungi eat the dead. That’s another fact. Your people have become ‘pre-dead’ and that is why fungal infections, metaphors, and extinctions are now common. This is also an aspect of your pop fascination with zombies. Fungal infections in humans are not acute like bacterial infections. They do not ‘come and go’. They are chronic, and they often have far broader fields of metabolic effect than bacterial infections.

They come, and stay, and kill slowly, cripplingly, cryptically. Fungal infections can (they do, in many cases) actively inhibit human cognitive assets, and can produce symptoms that look like mental or neurological damage or disease. In fact, the diseases now ambient are going to take you 25 years to even understand, let alone contend with.

You’re still busy worrying about the exchangeable immunities your use of drugs has created in deadly gram-negative bacteria and other situations familiar to you. That’s reasonable. These are, indeed, deadly threats. But the fungal threat is about to become far more serious, common, and confusing… and, once again, it’s a direct result of your ‘brilliant medical know how’ that is ‘saving mankind and the world’ ‘from disease’.

I think we’ve heard this argument from parasites many times before.

Truth be told, we’ve died of it many times before.”

— talks too much