This is an ancient Roman proverb. There is a known phenomenon in biology called parasitic zombification – the situation when parasites not just feed on their prey but also become its “superiors,” i.e., influence its actions and even its physiology in their own interests. The affected organism starts acting in the parasites’ interest without realizing all the harm and dangers this could cause.
Earlier, we discussed the process of “bureaucratic fattening.” It is known that overweight in people occasionally can evolve into cancer. A cancerous tumor is a pathological process of unrestrained reproduction of transformed cells that deprive normal tissues of nutrition, suppress and destroy them, often resulting in a lethal outcome for the organism.
In 1998, a prestigious hospital purchased our software Innovation WorkBench® for solving inventive problems. They also requested a three-day workshop with the use of “computerized TRIZ[1]“ to obtain solutions to several problems in the process of training.
Our house, our house, our house -
Is full of drafts, drafts.
And the roof is warping in the wind...
(Bulat Okudzhava)
A common refrain on the Left today is that if only we had Medicare for All (a shorthand for socialized medicine, where the government provides medical services either directly at government-run hospitals and clinics, or indirectly, by being the only insurer and reimburser for such services), then the coronavirus pandemic would be so much easier on all of us.
