I write fantasy and magical realism. Right now I’m reading a fantastical and terrifying science fiction story of the destruction of the human race. Except it is a true story. And that is even more frightening …
Yesterday I bought Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis. My chiropractor and healer (strongly) recommended it to me.
Wheat Belly is full of stories. The story of the author’s journey as an overweight and diabetic physician is inspiring. He is a physician who did heal himself. The stories of people he has cured, many with multiple and drastic symptoms, are impressive. There is a story telling of one of the many threads of hypercapitalism’s history - the quest for more of this stuff called ‘money’ regardless of the costs to peoples and planet. And then there is the story of the creation of frankenfood modern ‘wheat’ itself, put together, just as Frankenstein was, from bits and pieces of wheat and plant this-and-that.
And so … once upon a time … long before hypercapitalism … there was wheat. And it was good … And then scientists – and this is such a common motif in our hypercapitalst society – as is their wont (of ignorance) decided to make wheat ‘better’, and at the same time make LOTS of this stuff called ‘money’ for a small number of people. Who in turn became privileged and … but that is another story.
On page 25 Dr. Davis tells us – “… these products of agricultural research were released into the food supply without human safety concerns being part of the equation.” And the rest is history. “… over the past fifty years thousands of new strains (of wheat) have made it to the human commercial food supply without a single effort at safety testing.”
I personally believe all the stories in Wheat Belly are true. Including the one that modern ‘wheat’ is bad. I’ve been trending away from it for a long time – I am not very tolerant of gluten. But now I am done with it.
Of course ‘wheat’ is only one component of the American food lobby’s package that they bribe and bully the rest of the world into consuming. Their top-tier package is – wheat, cheese, tomatoes, beef, corn syrup, potatoes, sugar, milk. Just think of the last time you saw an advert for a pizza or burger. ‘Wheat’ holds or wraps it all together, of course.
In passing let me say … We are also doing the same to our archetypes. Exactly the same. Modifying them. Creating hybrids. Changing them … partly, I think, because we are scared of their purity and the purity of their balance, and the fact that purity is Guiding. And the consequences of that modification program, by writers for studios and games, causes much of the paralleled frenzy and deadness in modern culture. There are no effect-less causes. But all that is another story … to be told at another time …
Repeat: there are no effect-less causes. Feed a population a diet of ‘wheat’, and … Feed a population a diet of frenzied, flattened and mayhemic ‘archetypes’, and …
To be a true revolutionary one has to (at least partly, but most definitely) elect and actively choose to live outside some of the currents of the society that we live in. Quite honestly, there is no point wanting a ‘better’ society while financially supporting the entities and processes that create and sustain the factors in society that we want to change. So it is with the American food lobby – which, in sad fact, is the de facto food lobby for the whole world. We, collectively, do need many of us (we don’t need all of us) to fight hypercapitalism by using one of the most potent capitocidal (that which destroys capitalism) remedies that we have – Money. Or ‘Money’. By surgical withdrawal from one part of the hypercapitalist body and application to areas outside hypercapitalism. Funny huh? It's kind of like a fractalled homeopathy, where we take a diluted small dose of what the 1% love, and use it against them.
“Wheat’ is one good way to begin with the American food lobby. Which in itself is part of the larger Industrial-Military-Financial-Spying Complex.
And … but wait there’s more! Not buying the story of ‘wheat’, and plain not buying it, breaks what I call the White Rabbit conspiracy – “One pill makes you larger, And one pill makes you small”. And the White Rabbit conspiracy is … one part sells you stuff that makes you fat, and another part sells you stuff, they say, that makes you thin. One part sells you stuff that makes you look bad, and another part sells you stuff, they say, makes you look pretty and beautiful. And so on … What an elegant and perfectly balanced conspiracy, that is so easy to maintain, so elastic and cohesive, and so well-hidden because it is in plain view, lauded by terabytes of advertising per day.
The oppression of forced ill-health is BAD. As a writer it is good to fight. You may quote me on that. These stories from our ‘real world’ do impact me as an artist. It is time, I feel, to re-read 1984 and Brave new World.
Namaste! I bow to and honor the Light within you!
and below ... I still love this song, and their 'energy', after all these years ...
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