Save The PHYLO Turtles!

Growing up you either were a dog person or a cat person, a frog/lizard person or a turtle/fish person. As adults, these creatures become threads to our past, to how we view life. That animalistic aspect our nature plays a vital role when we perceive a threat to ourselves or our loved ones. We name our sports teams after animals. We use them in cartoons. But when it comes to understanding the human as an animal, we forget how untamed we really are. When we see violence on the local news or pay to see it in movies or DVD's, we call it a cultural thing. It's an odd situation. It's almost like in order to feel safe, we need to know we aren't afraid. And in order to know we're not afraid, we scare ourselves for entertainment. This 'social' conditioning is always present when we talk about health.

In Michael Moore's movie SiCKO, we get a visceral tour of what life is like inside and outside our culture when it comes to health care. We see some of the most inhumane, cold-blooded corporate agendas grind their ways over and through the lives of the poor, the insured working class. The very young and the very old are shown no mercy. In a sense, SiCKO is a horror movie that aims to awaken its audience to a 'flaw' in our all too human nature. The 'flaw' is called, self-preservation. It's part of our biological wiring that allowed us to survive, develop and 'evolve' into modern civilization. So it's unavoidable. Yet a lot of the reasons why Americans suffer from debilitating health conditions, shortened life spans, and diminished quality of life stems from their lifestyle choices, not their health care coverage. Where's that self-preservation when you need it? Well, it's been outsourced to the same culture that feeds them violence, consumption and an urgency to work at paces that derail families, relationships and ultimately the hopes and dreams of most Americans...

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The somatic domain that perpetuates this is, of course, the PHYLO one. While it's the most biologically oriented domain, it's also the most socially conditioned too. So it tends to internalize all the fear and sense of futility the authority figures pump at them. This 'turtling' effect makes them slow to react to the loss of freedom and reluctant to challenge the authorities. So whether it's their local doctor who fills them with stories about infectious disease (better get that kid his shots) or self-limiting conditions (better get that kid an antibiotic) or now contagious diseases (beware the bird flu!) or the mainstream media or the good old medical machine AKA, the pharmacracy, the result is a populace of PHYLO's convinced this is as good as it gets. SiCKO aims to change that status quo by showing the beleaguered PHYLO's how other PHYLO's live and work in neighboring countries. This will change the menu when it comes to what's possible in terms of both the health care system, but also for their quality of life. It' simple. If the PHYLO raise the bar, no authority figure can stop them.

Have you ever seen a kid lose a faceoff with a parent when another kid has what they want?

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