In
the previous post of this series we looked at government from a vantage point not often considered.
We peered out over the political landscape from a doctor's vantage point.
Then we went even further, to consider the constitution as one form of
medicine or immunization designed to treat those who would sit in any of the seats of power.
In our view, expressed in that post, we examined the notion that those who sit in the seats of power (including religion) are constantly exposed to what we call
the toxins of power.
We noted that the whole purpose for that
constitutional treatment for exposure to those toxins, together with
annual follow up elections to work as booster shots containing the anti-toxin called
accountability, was to
avoid an ongoing diseased government that
more and more would oppress the people it purported to serve.
No doubt it seems strange, at first, to consider government from the perspective of a doctor, from the perspective of
Epidemiology, nevertheless, at the same time it is common for people to react to some of the behavior of congress, the president, and the courts with the phrase "that's sick".
We bloggers, commenters, and posters at
Dredd Blog have also expressed another notion, based on a review of the history of empires, that there is an increasing sense that the
toxins of power can, over time, build up an immunity to those types of treatments (like the
resistance of Streptococcus, for example).
We suggested, therefore, that we should "get modern" by developing an actual
immunization vaccination that would have some capacity to protect those who are exposed to the toxins of power.
We noted that our microbiology scientists, researchers, and scholars, have made great inroads into the study of microbes, as well as the impact microbes have on the concept of
what it is to be human.
We believe that we are now in a stronger position, medically and scientifically, to seriously begin to consider and to develop such
a vaccine.
But note that this is
not a vaccine for stupidity or incompetence, rather it is a vaccine for already intelligent, competent Americans who become government officials, and who are
then and thereby exposed to toxins of power.
Toxins that will pull
any and all of them toward behavior they would not otherwise normally conduct, prior to having been exposed to those toxins.
The
Toxins of Power Blog now is advancing
an ongoing, maturing hypothesis that encourages
research and development which could move us closer to the day when we can discover what any such vaccine would be able to do to minimize the effects of the toxins of power.
Hopefully, those who have the capacity to do such research and development will
take the idea and run with it for the benefit of people everywhere.
The next post in this series is
here, the previous post in this series is
here.
The Dredd Blog post yesterday quoted a December 22, 2009, Dredd Blog post that contained prescient observations.
