Editors note; About a year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with bladder cancer. This piece is tied to that experience, it emerged from that difficult discovery. Like much of my other work, this writing is deeply personal and rooted in what I’ve lived through.
It is a mirror reflecting the violence of industrial civilization, its poisoned air, its carcinogenic food systems, and its obsession with profit over life. The same civilization that creates cancer through environmental destruction and toxic technologies claims to offer a “cure” through chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, treatments that often ravage the body more viciously than the disease itself.
The entire cancer-industrial complex must be understood as a symptom of deeper systemic rot: a world dominated by hierarchical control, corporate power, and ecological annihilation. The Roots of the Disease Cancer rates have skyrocketed in the modern era not because of genetic mutation or bad luck, but because of the toxic landscape created by capitalism and industrial development. Factory emissions, synthetic chemicals, plastic byproducts, pesticide-soaked crops, radioactive waste,all are direct consequences of a civilization that sees the Earth as dead matter to be exploited.
This not as an accident, but as the inevitable outcome of a system that places profit and production over health and harmony.
Corporations like Monsanto (now Bayer), Dow Chemical, and ExxonMobil poison the land, air, and water with complete impunity.
Their practices contaminate communities, drive mass extinction, and create the conditions for cancer to flourish. And yet, when people fall ill, it is the pharmaceutical companies, another arm of the industrial deathmachine, that arrive pretending to offer salvation.
Chemotherapy and Radiation: State-Sanctioned PoisonMainstream cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation are not healing modalities, they are weapons of chemical warfare.
Chemotherapy, which is often derived from mustard gas agents developed in World War II, indiscriminately attacks all rapidly dividing cells in the body, devastating not just cancerous tissues but the immune system, hair, gut, and bone marrow. Radiation therapy literally burns the body from the inside out. These methods weaken, disorient, and destroy the body’s natural systems of defense and regeneration.
What is sold to us as “medicine” is often no more than legalized poison, administered not for the sake of healing but for the sake of profit. The pharmaceutical industry makes billions off toxic treatments that keep patients dependent and docile.
The longer a patient suffers, hooked to machines, prescription regimens, and clinical trials, the more money is made. This is not health care; it is biocapitalism.
Big Pharma: Profiting from SufferingThe cancer industry is a multi-trillion-dollar business.
Pharmaceutical companies, insurance corporations, research foundations, and hospitals all have a financial interest in the continuation,not the cure,of cancer. This is not coincidental; it is a system working exactly as intended. The sickness of the body becomes a source of wealth for elites.
Suffering is monetized, and death becomes a commodity.
Big Pharma lobbies governments, censors natural alternatives, suppresses indigenous knowledge, and criminalizes self-directed healing.
Natural remedies, holistic medicine, plant-based diets, and ecological health practices are dismissed as “unscientific” not because they are ineffective, but because they are unprofitable and decentralizing.
I see in these practices the seeds of liberation: autonomy from the medical-industrial complex, and a return to Earth-centered, anti-authoritarian modes of healing.
My response to cancer is not to trust the machine that creates disease to provide the cure. It is to reject the machine entirely. We call for the dismantling of industrial capitalism, the end of chemical agriculture, and the destruction of the corporate pharmaceutical empire.
True healing will never be found in hospitals built by tyrants. It must be found in the soil, in rewilding, in mutual aid clinics, in anti-authoritarian care networks, and in restoring our broken relationship with the Earth.