Thermodynamically War and Disease are Related: Kennedy is Right!
Thermodynamics Shows Robert Kennedy Jr. is Right!
This is 2022 Healthcare (Sick Care) and Military Expenditure as % of GDP1. America is indeed a historic anomaly when it comes to the amount of money spent on wars and diseases! This is a valid point made by Robert Kennedy Jr. in his historic speech on why he is leaving the Democrat Party which has become the party of wars and big Pharma.
But Kennedy may not realize how these two (wars and chronic diseases) are thermodynamically and metabolically related! In my books, I scientifically explain why these budget line items are indeed related:
First, they are both heavily driven by the steroid hormone cortisol which breaks down the system’s surpluses and reserves to fight chronic stressors and deficits of energy (or money when it comes to economy).
Wars and diseases both ravage living systems (our body and society) by inducing chaos. I discuss the concept in my books in relation to the “Second Law of Thermodynamics.” Chaos begets chaos. The outcome is a deficit in what we call “Gibbs Free Energy” in thermodynamics. In simple terms, it’s the productive energy in a system for productive, constructive and useful work which is drained by chaos and disorder of the war or metabolic imbalance (disease). Living systems maximize their Gibbs Free energy while dying systems minimize it by constantly living through chaos, allostasis, non-equilibrium, imbalance (injustice), deficits (of energy or budget), etc. Life and health are the only forces in universe that can impose order over chaos.
Wars and diseases are also both profitable, self-feeding perpetual business models because they are both rooted in disorder, which only gets worse over time the more we keep it going and feed it. Also, the more we spend in foreign wars, the less (time and money) we have to spend on domestic priorities like good (quality) food, sustainable farming, family and community values, and low-stress lifestyles, which are essential for good health.
Tyrants and control freaks love wars and diseases. A sick, stressed nation in perpetual wars is easier to control than a healthy, self-sustaining nation in peace because in times of war and disease, our brains switch from judicious decision makers (using our analytical frontal cortex and empathetic prefrontal areas) to relying on limbic (anxious, sensational, impulsive, paranoid) and lizard (primitive, survival) brain.
Wars and disease (sick care) are two sides of the same problem as explained in detail in my books. My first book (Masks, Crutches and Daggers: The Science of our Self-Delusional, Addictive Homo economicus Brain) narrated the history of the evolution of the modern human brain with all its imbalances, addictions and excesses (on Amazon’s 2022 Hot new Release).
My second book (2024), The ROGUE Brain, discusses why we are the only species that knowingly do what is bad for us and for our species. It’s all rooted in our unruly untrained brains and their metabolically dysfunctional feedback loops with our body.
My third book (2024, coming soon), discusses The Right Way to Eat to ensure metabolic balance in the feedback loops connecting our body to our brain.
I need help by righteous folks like you to share with others my mission, which is educating every American about the real (unsponsored) Brain 101 and Food 101 🙏.
Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1175077/healthcare-military-percent-gdp-select-countries-worldwide/
Timely writing - thank you!