From: "Charles Gavette" <chaosmosis-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Kidneys
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:28:56 PST


To make a story so salient as to be unbelievable, unspeakable, is part 
of how the machine works.. But some of us who are closer to the medical 
know that it is entirely possible to harvest kidneys in much the manner 
described. It is sad, then, that our denial takes us away from the 
possible. It is real that in the Middle East and in China, they are much 
less picky about the organs.  Also, rather than see how prestige comes 
in here, we would rather make a joke of it. If you had the money and 
needed an organ, how much nicer would it be to take it without comitting 
murder? To actually have someone else's body part and get away with it. 
As if this has never happened! We declare such possibilities as being 
incongruent with existing states of alienation. Indeed. Refresh 
yourselves in anatomy, philosophers. Remember that the adrenals are 
located on top of the kidneys, and this makes it difficult to harvest 
without a trauma response. Ever read of Joseph Mengele's Nazi 
experiments? An HBV outbreak due to spring-loaded fingerstick devices 
being used on multiple patients paves the way for real forms of 
genocide, because just as a book passing through the magnetic detector 
at the library, it is impossible to prove intent. Did you steal the 
book, or did you forget it was in your bag? And lastly, in the 
societites of control, it is not smart to introduce too much paranoia 
too quickly. We must be "primed," so that we become somewhat 
desensitized to violence. In the French, the word that fits this idea is 
aguerir. Concentration camp humor, but the possibilities are very real.

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