Understanding "Feline Leukemia" means understanding the veterinary context. "Veterinary Medical Reality" is not synonymous with absolute reality. For that matter, all realities are to a greater or lesser extent private. As Aristotle pointed out, absolute reality either does not exist or is not knowable. Disease labels, because of their Ad Hoc nature, can and should be questioned. "Feline Leukemia" does not exist in time and space. Pathogens are real. Suffering is real. Diseases are not real. Diseases do not have dimensions. You cannot measure or weigh them.
Point one: all reality constructs, including the "Feline Leukemia" label, are subject to analysis and are disputable.
Follow along with me here because this will change your life. Diseases are part of a lexicon that validate a particular course of action. A disease label configures a therapeutic approach. Once the disease name is attached to a collection of symptoms and measurements, then a course of action is prefigured. If you accept "Feline Leukemia" as a label, then along with that acceptance is a compulsion for vaccines, chemicals, and high tech interventions.
If, instead of "Feline Leukemia" you were to label the pathology as an imbalance and toxicity of the blood, you would have a whole new set of options that include reducing toxicity and reestablishing balance.
All our lives we are taught that disease labels are not only real but unassailable. The truth is that they start as convenient medical shorthand and evolve into control elements for vested interests. They have no absolute reality. The first question in treating "Feline Leukemia" is: If "Feline Leukemia" does not exist in time and space, then what are vaccinating against? What are we medicating against? Please think this through!
Point two: especially in issues of life and death do not concede your God-given right to define your world.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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