`Body Snatchers (8) Humankind as Disease

It is the dark side of our ever more modern world: The more mobile we are, the more globalized we are, the more connected we are... the more vulnerable we are to threats, attacks and disease.  In a way, we are victims of our own remarkable progress.  But these experts speak to a more virulent sort of disease: that is, the malevolent intent of some people to inflict harm, devastation and death on others, and to use disease as agents of such via bioterrorism.  

As I argued in one discussion on Google+, we must account for both epidemiology (analytic and demographic picture) and phenomenology (human experience and intent) in order to grasp disease fully and sustain measures of victory over it.

Note: In the DVD for `The Invasion (2007), the fourth film adaptation of the classic Jack Finney novel `The Body Snatchers, We've Been Snatched Before is a feature program.  I couldn't find an upload of it on YouTube, so the next best thing, I thought, was to capture this thought-provoking program via the foregoing screen shots.

`Body Snatchers (7) Disease as Enduring Adversary

In the battle for survival, disease is more than just a formidable adversary.  It is an enduring adversary, against which, I believe, we mustn't fool ourselves into believing we can ever completely eradicate.  

Note: In the DVD for `The Invasion (2007), the fourth film adaptation of the classic Jack Finney novel `The Body Snatchers, We've Been Snatched Before is a feature program.  I couldn't find an upload of it on YouTube, so the next best thing, I thought, was to capture this thought-provoking program via the foregoing screen shots.

`Body Snatchers (6) Disease as Predation

It isn't just the unknown per se that we fear, but also the predation in disease, among other things, that we fear.

It is certainly easy, and no doubt understandable and expected, for us to mark disease as predatory.  But in my thesis of our elemental relationship with disease as a battle for survival, disease may very well mark humankind as such.  

Note: In the DVD for `The Invasion (2007), the fourth film adaptation of the classic Jack Finney novel `The Body Snatchers, We've Been Snatched Before is a feature program.  I couldn't find an upload of it on YouTube, so the next best thing, I thought, was to capture this thought-provoking program via the foregoing screen shots.