Symptoms? Cure?

[illusionofjoy]

I was just thinking that no matter how many diseases we learn to cure, there will always be others to take their place. I suspect that it is just a condition of the modern age and humanity's desire to make nature conform to it's will, rather than accept what already is. Nature doesn't like being pushed around.

We've obliterated the bubonic plague (few don't use soap these days), along with measles and smallpox, yet we still have AIDS and cancer. Also, there are newer diseases humanity now must contend with, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Come to think of it, AIDS didn't get much exposure until the 80s, even though the first case was documented in the 18^th century. I wonder how old those other diseases actually are...

Aeon Flux is being made into a movie. It's theme is similar to Steven King's The Stand, with a Sci-Fi twist. Like the latter, save for a few survivors, the world's population has been wiped out by a disease. In Aeon Flux, the survivors are holed up in a walled city run by scientists.

Cynic that I am, I more apt to think the same way that Edgar Allen Poe did in The Masque of the Red Death. Long story short: everyone who isn't sick locks themselves behind closed doors in a city and parties all of the time, thinking that they are safe. Then someone shows up at one of the parties wearing bloody rags. Oops.

Comments

[stacycat69.livejournal.com]

People are living far different lives now than they ever did before. We are living longer, so diseases of old age are more prevelant. We hose down our bodies with chemicals and eat more preservatives and chemicals than ever before, is there any wonder why new diseases keep popping up?

[candyblades.livejournal.com]

Damn, I miss the Aeon Flux shows. The artwork was always so bizarre and amazing.