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Corruption, greed, materialism, consumerism, selfishness, and individuality are not only the worlds cancer, but also the cause of most cancer patients disease. Today’s plague is cancer . . . Every era casts illness in its own image. Society, like the ultimate psychosomatic patient, matches its medical afflictions to its psychological crises. What are the crises? Mukherjee lists some of the contemporary images that describe both society and cancer: excess, rapaciousness, rugged individuality, expansionism, desperation, ferocity. Our fear of cancer is amplified by our fear that society itself is fatally flawed, eating itself from within, putting us all at risk. Cancer is, on a deep level, a spiritual and psychological phenomenon as well as a medical one. (rdd.me/wgoh9toa) youtu.be/DlJEt2KU33I
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 11:00:52 +0000

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