Cancer and the Society

What would happen if our society are more independent than interdependent. What one means is, essentially considering everyone is moving towards jack of all trades, than focusing on a single path. Although a few jack of all trades help the society, to link different parts of the situation together, and create new ideas; if everyone is a jack of all trades, it's cancerous.

Maybe there are situations like that, I don't know, maybe there aren't. But to see from nature, cancer cells in our body, when we get cancer, are actually that -- a jack-of-all-trades cell. Because your targeting cell that's only strong at one aspect starts failing, your cells want to mutate such that it can prolonged its survival. Unfortunately, dependent societies fail when their dependencies fall apart, they're therefore leave with "no jobs" and requires re-learn something else, or rot away as evolution takes place. On the other hand, jack of all trades can do everything, so they're more likely to survive despite things fails.

So, back to the topic, when your cells becomes jack-of-all-trades, it calls for a strike, like people organizing strike against their governments to protest against something. Your mutated cancer cells started the protests, and all at once, the healthy cells starts mutating to also become jack of all trades. Now, they're not specialized anymore, your organs starts failing. Your tissues starts failing. Everythings starts to get taken over by the cancer cells. They all rebel! The result, the person whom got cancer die.

No wonder our society aren't composed of jack of all trades. Just look at how cancer cells spread. It would be mythical if our society survives with everyone being a jack of all trades without a (few specific) specialization.

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• Exercised by Daniel Lieberman.