Governments, like cells, can become cancerous. Once they do, like cells, they will sacrifice anyone and everything to assert and protect their dominance, their authority, and the instruments of their power. We are witnessing this process right now in the United States.

Early warning signs are internally organized attacks on cultural and material infrastructure, art, speech, education, health, and the environment. Late-stage signs are extreme militarization, prison-building, technology at the expense of well-being, extensive military engagements at home and abroad, and rapacious hunger for energy resources.

Analogous strategies are strikingly familiar from a wide variety of fatal cancers.

These governmental (and corporate) agendas and activities are fundamentally opposed to the principles upon which our nation was founded. They make a toxic mockery of anything we might otherwise understand as ‘national purpose’, and transform the meaning of citizenship in such fashion as to render us criminally incompetent.

That we would allow such circumstances to continue and evolve, let alone fund them with our cash and labor, is a sign of how stridently our general delusion has co-opted our understandings of the real character and function of these organizations and processes. We are, as yet, essentially ignorant of their obvious outcomes.

Therefore I say that we must recognize and acknowledge these matters clearly, and respond not as factions, but as a people — perhaps even as a planet — else we shall fail in both our citizenship and our humanity, and find that we have become little more than fodder for apocalyptic agendas which we would otherwise oppose with all possible expediency and intelligence.

We must carefully understand what is generally causative in the process of turning a government into a disease, and we must reformulate our general understandings and practices until we establish and protect the capacity to elect and enact a national organization whose character and function compliment our human spirit and intelligence, rather than assaulting them.