Healing Our Collective Sickness

March 26th, 2017

By Paul Levy

Guest writer for Wake Up World

In these uncertain, crazy, and polarizing and scary times we live in, one thing I think everyone can agree on is this: if viewed as a single macro-organism, humanity has fallen ill. With the ascension of Donald Trump onto the highest throne of political power on planet earth, some of us might feel that the sickness is finally going to be called out, illumined and healed, while others feel that Trump and his administration are themselves the current purveyors, lineage holders and embodiments of the sickness. Either way, the fact that humanity is not well — afflicted with some sort of disorder — is something that I think we can all agree upon; this might be a good starting point for our inquiry.

The obvious question: What is the nature of this deeper sickness that is pulsing through the veins of humanity?

In contemplating this very question, philosopher John McMurtry, author of the brilliant book The Cancer Stage of Capitalism, refers to the “Great Sickness” that pervades our modern day capitalist system as having all of the hallmark qualities of cancer. Using a whole systems approach, he points out that the diagnosis of cancer precisely maps onto a macro-analysis of our current body politic, which is to say that what is happening collectively in our world can be recognized to be a form of cancer.

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Also by Paul Levy:

• Homage to the Creative Spirit
• The Enlightened Madness of Sci-Fi Author Philip K. Dick

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