Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Rhetoric of Cancer

Tenmatay, Jerico Charles B.
2010-78004

Cancer is an example of having too much of a good thing. Mutations happen everywhere and all the time because it's part of the way things change and evolve into something different. It doesn't exclusively have to be with living organic beings because it happens to ideas as well. Some mutations fail quickly and fall by the wayside or become obscure relics of a past need while some remain, develop and ultimately become part of us (if we are talking about genetics) or our culture (if it's memetics).

But too much change over a short period of time or change focused in a wrong place is a bad thing. One thing to note about cancer, much like change, is that it is uncaring, unforgiving, and unaware. It simply happens for a reason, sometimes logical, other times not, and when it does happen, regardless, it does so indiscriminately and without mercy because it is what it does. We simply have to do something about it.

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