Elaine Feinstein "Anna of the Russias"
Are we not always in constant war? Is a war only betwen two conflicting groups of people? What about the conscious war between health and disease? Bacteria is a living entity that fights for survival everyday in a space which we claim as our own. This body is our possesion and bacteria are trying to survive using our own necessities: skin, organs, blood, fluid. This is their survival tactic.
They survive and we die or we survive and they die. Concurrently, humans spend an entire lifetime preparing themselves for this battle. Vaccines, anti-bacterial devices, isolation of the contaminated. We are constantly on an upward struggle. Always killing off one thing that threatens our existence.
Gravity: Gravity tries to press down upon us and we are constantly forcing ourselves back up. The building of muscles has become a lifelong preparation to literally fight against gravity. We are constantly at war with things/ factors that threaten our existence and the only time we are truly liberated from this struggle is when we, as individuals, cease to exist. Is this liberation or defeat? Did we lose? What/who is the victor? Can we say that time is the absolute victor? And in the individual battles, can we say that gravity or disease was the victor?
We are at a constant war for existence in a space we consider our own, in a time we consider our own. We do not compromise with anything that threatens our existence. we ddeessttrroooyy it... it is embedded in each and every one of us. we will struggle for survival at all cost or we will cease to exist.
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