I intentionally left, as the last one, the hypothesis that is the closest to the principal thesis of this book: the virus as a consequence and at the same time a remedy to overpopulation.
Some scientists isolated viruses that should be connected to some forms of depression. The researchers of Robert Kick Institute and Berlin Independent University worked on “Bornaviruses”, responsible in some mammals (sheep, cattle, horses and cats) for meningoencephalitis which can cause apathy and drowsiness. According to the researcher Liv Bode these viruses should be the cause of an alteration in the system of information exchange of the brain. As to depression the sympton or the series of symptons of the disease manifest themselves just because of the alteration in the passing of communication signals.
Cells with the same neurotransmitter form a “system”. These systems connect different areas of the brain and have to carry out specific tasks: to assure pleasure, seek novelties and satisfactions, warrant the control of behaviour, appetite, satiety and sleep.
Bornavirus might be identified as the cause of the alteration of these systems: some years ago a presence of antibodies against these viruses, ten times higher than in healthy people, was found out in patients suffering from depression.
After all they may be viruses or anomalous genes, but they are always angels rebellious to overpopulation[1].
In September 2001, as a confirmation of the existence of a suicide culture, the terrorist attack to the Twin Towers of New York happened. From a just military point of view it was a masterpiece of strategy: in a very short time numerical, symbolic and economic targets were obtained with really limited means.Probably the money for the preparation was fully recovered thanks to Stock Exchange speculations, with the insider trading technique.
Thanks to the use of suicide arm Bin Laden’s terrorists could bring war in the heart of the States, where great Germany, during the Second World War, had failed.
Obviously in this case depression should have nothing to do, yet it was often spoken about a probable suicide by Bin Laden and his firm intention not to be captured alive by the Americans. What really happened is of no interest to the subject of the book but, for some time, it seemed[2] only a suicide could have put an end to Bin Laden’s question. Independently from its military meaning this suicide event[3] excited such admiration as to be emulated in two occasions. The first one is Charlie Bishop’s suicide, an American teenager of fifteen years of age who crashed on a Cessna 172[4] into a skyscraper of the Bank of America[5].
A note celebrating Osama Bin Laden and the Kamikazes of 11th September[6] was found in Charlie’s pocket.
The second one, when an Italian-Swiss pilot, being ruined by wrong financial transactions, crashed on his own plane into the Pirellone, a skyscraper that is the symbol of Milan. It has a curious similarity with suicide, since the inquiry ascertained it was an accident.
[1] I had just finished the draft of this chapter when I heard Edoardo Agnelli had committed suicide. The metaphore is evident: the young man committed suicide by jumping off a motorway overpass: the suicide bridge. It’s interesting Don Ciotti’s (the leader of “Abele Group”) comment: he felt the evils of his time in himself.
[2] Or it was done to seem like that.
[3] The contradiction of the two words is intentionally used to say that, after such events, suicide isn’t a synonym of failure any longer: “it’s a suicide”but, at least in this case, a very efficacious arm. Of course, because this may be possible there must be people who are disposed to commit suicide.
[4] A small single-engine plane for tourists
[5] Exactly between 28° and 29° floors more or less at the same height where the jumbos, driven by the Arab terrorists, crashed into the Twin Towers of New York.
[6] Even in this case it was tried to involve the anti-acne Accutane, but at present we don’t know whether, even if it had been prescribed to him, Charlie would really take the medicine. Besides, if it’s true that, according to the data of Food and Drug Administration, between 1982 and 2000 147 persons who have taken Accutane were hospitalized for suicide attempts, it’s all the same true that thousands of other people have taken the medicine without revealing side effects. Just these figures confirm, in our opinion, that the depressive effect of the anti-acne medicine, like the one of any other suicide cause, works on personalities who are genetically predisposed.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
To be continued in:
21°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XXI part)
See also:
1)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre First Part)
2)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Second part)
3)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Third Part)
4°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fourth Part)
5°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fifth part)
6°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Sixth Part)
7°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Seventh Part)
8°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Eighth Part)
9°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Nineth part)
10°)Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Tenth part)
11°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Eleventh Part)
12°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Twelfth Part)
13°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Thirteenth Part)
14°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre Fourteenth Part)
15°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XV part)
16°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVI part)
17°) Suicides (Le Mal de Vivre XVII part)
18°) Suicides(Le Mal de Vivre XVIII part)
19°) Suicides (Le Mal de vivre XIX part)
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