A social cancer

In order to save human civilization, we need to cure cancer before dealing with minor ailments. 

Article Editor: Yan Beygelzimer, Dr.Sc., Professor
 

Nature often repeats itself in different phenomena, on different scales. A malignant aggressive formation actively destroying the tissues of the body....

When it's in the human organism, it's cancer. In a social organism, in society, this role is played by dictatorship.

Like a cancer, it takes over the vital organs of society, suppresses healthy cells (citizens and their rights), preventing them from functioning properly; it proliferates uncontrollably, consuming resources and destroying the social fabric.

Just as cancer develops by deceiving the cells that must fight it, so dictatorship, through lies, neutralizes the forces that could stop it.

Cancer cells are spread by the blood throughout the body, resulting in metastasis. Dictatorship is carried by “agents of influence”, and now its obvious manifestations in the seemingly most protected place - in the heart of democracy. 

The result is a slow but steady destruction of vital structures, which can lead to the death of the whole organism - society... unless it realizes that it is impossible to agree with the cancerous tumor and gathers all the forces to block it.

All healthy cells, including those that are far from the tumor, must understand this. Foolish is the brain that thinks that a tumor in the stomach does not pose a danger to it. One can only pity the organism that has it. 

Cover: Caricature “Dictator” by Vladimir Stepanov. Source: Anecdotes from Russia 

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