Aloha ʻĀina First

Because of the conditions set by urban high dense populations that created a materialistic/ capitalist societies, environmental concerns have become less of a priority. The humanistic secular view has filtered our way of perceiving the world. Mainly due to popular views on human evolution and secularism. Infections and parasites that reflect the state of the environment become a voice to allow a population think about environmental problems and issues.

Western medicine ironically does a quite a bit of selecting itself. It isolates living organisms apart from the whole to address perceived issues. The problem is, that that organism is taken a part from the whole. And there is no scientific method or way to construct the organisms natural conditions. From microbes to the celestial seasons, everything is connected.

In the United States, we live in one of the most obese countries in the world with may heart related issues. We use the environment to create produce that is unnatural to the geography and spend billions on maintaining the same materialistic/ environmental capitalist power structures that dominate our spaces.

The word antibiotics literally means “against life”. We have made ourselves sick, the land sick, and now want a bandage to heal our deep wounds. Our hunger to commodify everything our lusts pull us towards has caused deep pain to our environment and others. Diseases and bacteria are not the problem. Our overconsumption, greed, and ignorance has been used against us to destroy ourselves and one another.

The microbial world is our friends. We are made of more microbes than human cells. We don’t need to cope. We need to surrender to the creators design and submit our selves to that mode of being. We have been brain washed. We have become egocentric rather than ecocentric. When we stop using science as a way to mitigate necessary human suffering, we will then be able to use science to increase our quality of living, but first focusing on our environments.