Cancer Culture – Intro
Prevention is the best cure. You may have heard this statement or similar at one point in your life. Indeed, prevention is a very effective line of defense against many problems and diseases we see around us. However, prevention cannot be efficiently applied without proper and sufficient knowledge. This knowledge can range from an individual to a global society level. Can you think of examples of what would fall under this umbrella of prevention? There are hundreds if not thousands of societal ills that could be possibly prevented with proper knowledge. Here I would like to focus on the cultural aspects that prevent us as individuals from attaining clear knowledge for proper prevention. In particular, what I like to coin as Cancer Culture. Before moving forward, I do want to state that there are situations wherein no amount of knowledge can/will prevent harm and/or disease from befalling us. I have to make this clear. Sometimes these afflictions are meant to touch us and it is up ...