Mad Cow Disease
I suspect you'll find that, unlike appearances, mad cow disease has something in common with
lime's disease in that they are not really new at all. Mutations, perhaps, but not new.
In fact, lime's disease was reported in Europe in the dark ages -- the real dark ages back in the ancient history of Europe, not the twentieth century before the internet, though it was dark enough then.
My uncle Web had a herd of cows back in Massachusetts in the early twentieth century. He did talk to me about them but, you know how
condescending folks are to toddlers, so I didn't get much impute. Nor did I get much chance to inspect the herd but I did get a chance to watch them returning to the barn in the late afternoons.
The herd was healthy. Uncle Web was one of those greatest of experts in all the World, the farmer. He lived beyond one hundred and I have vague recollections of him making it beyond one hundred and ten. So then I suppose I have something to report and I'd better get on with it and let it go into the wild web so we can take one step
beyond.
When a beast dies, such as a cow or large animal, even small ones, they join the part of the ecosystem known by us barbarians as the "saprobic chain". That is the food chain of the underworld. Of the unseen. Of dendrites of mould and colonies of yeast, bacteria, fungi and
myriad (I use that word often because that is one of the gut basic terms of the cosmos) other forms that break down what is scheduled to be broken down into the basics and returned to the soil to mix with the
alluvial elements of the lithosphere and the meteoric dust of outer space.
Now, in my world travels, I have seen unhealthy herds, crowded together, and made to stand
penned up in the mud. Here's your harbinger of disease in that turf beneath their feet. They get too close to the saprobic chain and their schedule arrives too early. The same conditions began to take place in the dark ages as things like
personnel and their chattels and their cattle began to get closer together. This is where we see the advent of
extraordinary disease.
But it gets worse. The interconnection of squashed-in units. The diseases of plague proportions traveling the caravan routes from the silk roads of China. So one might think, ah -- there's the problem right there. So what we must do is simply spread out and that solves that. Perhaps it's part of the answer. But not the whole answer. Not quite. It's never that easy.
There has been a form of mad cow disease among herbivorous North American wildlife for decades now. That has been
common knowledge. And in the areas where the disease broke out, in Alberta Province
in the Canadian side and in Washington State in the States' side, the wild hoards
of elk among others are mixing with the cattle as they get fed out.
Now I used to feed my cattle out -- they weren't mine but I took care of them for a friend in New Zealand while staying at his place in the southern part of the
northern island near a town called Ohura. I'd go out and feed them the hay and give them hugs. When I took a break from writing and walked out on the hills, they'd gather behind me. When I grabbed my guitar and sang, they'd come running. Just a few head, nothing much to speak of.
There was a micro tiny heard of a cow, a heifer, a bull, and seven calves. They were a part of a very large heard my friend's brother had until he went out of business as so many New Zealander farmers had.
The New Zealand farmers who failed were accused of bad financial management, but that wasn't the case. The fact was, as is common throughout the world and is the aspect of human nature that really is the primary cause of disease, they were the victims of
financial manipulation.
It began in areas of the greatest ancient civilizations, particularly the Nile river valley, the
Ganges River valley, but in particular the Yallu River Valley and is still going on in that region in the form of annual flue mutations and that now
famous region from which emanates the old disease now called SAARS. With civilization comes cures and with cures come
super germs.
Because of the advent of primitive economic manipulation, the population and their food supplies, especially livestock, tended to bunch up, as it were, touching off the signal to the saprobic chain to begin the breakdown. Here we see the advent of the poxes, which tend to use the subcutaneous area of an organism, or it's respiratory areas, to colonize the first
tenants of breakdown to the elements, toxic micro organisms. They tend to colonize where they can get a foothold, in areas where blood-bourn antibodies can't reach.
But here we're looking at the neural infections such as the avian encephalitis and the
mad cow type illnesses as well as the nerve damaging lime's diseases prevalent among the
wild herds of deer. Diseases that would impair the beast's ability to stay clear of top carnivores. Diseases that still continue to work even if the T.C.'s are no longer there.
Now, before I go further, I can't just discuss the problem without offering the first elements of some sort of a solution. We know the populous will not turn from it's
mezmerization by economic power. So the solution must incorporate the bunching. Go to my website and look at my article about the
calendar. Man's inept concept of a calendar is also a big part of the problem.
Now considering the other aspect of the saprobic chain, the wilderness aspect: we tend to divide them in our present primitive forms of ecology, but that's something I learned from Uncle Web's cows, because, you see,
toddlers don't realize they aren't supposed to be in a conversational mode with other species. It's cyclical. It's like a battery that recharges itself. Man as a part of nature, with his ecological niche, is perpetuated by the cycle of nature in his adapted farm. The impression is that that ideally takes place without any outside interaction, in particular
monetary.
With the herds in the wild, there are elements of the saprobic chain such as parasites and toxic micro organisms that initiate the cull of the
hoards that are then followed up upon by the top carnivores of the food chain. The elk get sick and the wolves come up and bite their bottoms. That's the safest way for disproportionate top
carnivores to bring down something that big. No more saber toothed cats at least for a while.
That's perhaps why mad cow disease, or herd-culling saprobitis, as I call it, was first noted in England as what was thought of as a new disease. The fact is that man forgets. That's normal, things like that can't be remembered
indefinitely, another big lesson to be learned. There the top carnivores were
eliminated by man and over the ages, the biotic interface, which I have discussed in other articles in the medicine section of my website, was
forgotten, primarily by misinterpretation brought about by preoccupation with pecuniary power and it's resultant delusionary state.
Observe that the disease takes only a section of the herd. The resultant neural damage and it's
characteristic spungiform appearance in view from autopsy, is an evident aid to a predator to cull the beast.
During times of abundance, which are thought of as plague conditions by people, up to twenty percent of the herd is infected so that they may be culled by whatever top
carnivore might assist the saprobic chain to get on with what it deems to be it's job.
So far the disease has been traced to a protein in the small intestine and in
nervous tissue, but that could well be an immune response triggered by an
infection of some sort, perhaps multiple infections, known and unknown.
Also I must point out that humans are susceptible to a form of the disease because we, too,
occur in herds. Omnivores, perhaps, but then so are wild bores. I have discussed elements of this in my papers which I'm still working on called "The
Coming Plague". In an obtuse manner of looking at it, one must really note finally that the economics that really are causing the problem among humans are seen in a new light: that in part, at least, and perhaps a major part, and I knew this since a child, the power of money is death -- or more properly put, decomposition.
As a child I could understand the respect adults had for money, an instinctive fear, almost, as if there was the realization on the
peripherals of the subconscious that death had some involvement and therefore it was handled in hushed
manor, much like obsequities are handled at the morgue or the funerary. Certainly it's not as simple as that, but it plays a big part.
It's the economic pressure that causes a farmer's cows to stand in the mud or causes the elk to mix with the cattle. That's the pressure that forces mankind into crowded
urban conditions. That's what causes the expert farmers to go out of business and the business people to feed the cattle carcasses of the dead cattle. That's what causes people to become so preoccupied that they forget.
And I alone am escaped to tell thee. The artist from the fringe, who lived outside
the dictums of money, who traveled the earth in search of answers.
These diseases emerge because you loose touch with prevention. There is a way to tidy up, in a manor of speaking, so that the ecology of decomposition doesn't come knocking on your door. There is a biotic interface, a way to discourse with the realities of the universe beyond economics, so that you are in line with real
protocols of health.
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Mad Cow Disease, herd-culling saprobitis.
Death and taxes are a part of what money is, but in another sense, so are plagues.
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The natural culling of the saprobic chain and the top carnivores has now become the economic blight of nations.