Cancer bites - Mosquitoes bite.
Insects, cancer: they all suck, they all bite.
Getting bitten by a pitbull bites.
All these things have two closely related meanings:
They are all metaphorically dreadful and they are all literally painful.
Just as 1939-1945 (aka WWII aka MODERNITY UNLEASHED) was.
WWII bites, WWII sucks, because it bit 60 to 75 million people and bit them to death.
And that sucks, Big Time ----literally and figuratively....
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Why My Urgency ?
- Michael Marshall
- Nova Scotia
- Histories of WWII all start with the presumption that it was a war raged between humans and human ideologies, with Nature’s climate and geography as side issues easily surmounted.My blog, on the contrary will only accept that it was conflict between humans and their ideology that STARTED the war but that it was the barriers thrown up by Mother Nature (geography & climate) that turned it into a war that lasted between 6 to 15 years and expanded to thoroughly involve all the world’s oceans and continents. High Modernity may have started the war convinced that Nature had been conquered and was about to be soon replaced by human Synthetic Autarky and that only human Tiger tanks and human Typhoon planes were to be feared. But by the end, more and more people had lost their naive faith in Scientism and were beginning to accept that humanity was thoroughly entangled with both the Nature of plants, animals & microbes as well as the Nature of so called “lesser” humanity. By 1965, the world was definitely entering the Age of Entanglement. Billions still believed - at least in part -with the promises of High Modernity but intellectually & emotionally, it was no longer dominant...
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