At last the new world order is complete.

On 9th of September 2004, the new world order is complete. On that day Russia announced a policy of "preemptive strike against terror", Putin and his government aligning itself with the Bush doctrine in the United States of America! Ever since the end of the cold war, everyone wondered what would be the nature of a unipolar world? One superpower without a counter power? For a short time Russia tried to play the game it had always played as a counter balance to US opinion.

But President Bush has unleashed a new weapon on the world, Al Qaeda (read about how in this interesting article). Even before the investigation was complete, Russia announced that there were 10 Arabs among the hostage takers. Al Qaeda has joined forces in Chechnya and even in Indonesia now (read this for a list of bombings, etc. Attributed to them).

What does all this have to do with CANCER?

Suppose you accept the theory that cancer is not a local level disease. In other words cancer is not entirely caused by some changes at the cellular level at a site. Rather cancer is also caused by "systemic" problems. This means that the actual cancer is only a local manifestation of a set of conditions that are conducive to the formation of malignancy. I should know. My sister-in-law was diagnosed of cancer when she was 30. Surgery removed all traces of the primary cancer and chemotherapy took care of any cells that got detatched and would be traveling in the lymphatic system looking for new sites (like seeds of a plant). Unfortunately within a matter of months she developed ANOTHER primary and she died by the time she was 32. Was that a freak accident? After all she didn't develop secondaries, but another primary. What is the probability of cancer developing afresh in one person two times?

In my Organizational Behaviour courses I often talk about the organization as a "system", and how the behaviour of an individual could be considered the result of a problem at the system level.

For a good part of my life, the world hung in a balance ..."Of power" between US and the USSR. We existed on the brink of anhilation with an evergrowing stockpile of weapons that could destroy the world many times over. On occasion, we have come frighteningly close too. But there was one good thing. Both sides knew who the enemy was. Everyone knew where to target ICBMs and the rules of conflict and diplomacy were played out with much sabre rattling.

Sheikh Yamani said that the invasion of Iraq would create.. "One hundred bin Ladens". In the same way that treating a cancer at its site is no solution for a systemic disease such as cancer. In fact there are those who believe that cancer is not a disease at all, just biological evolution at work.

Within a modernist world, perhaps, as Jacques Derrida would say, exists the seeds of anarchy and its own destruction. The more President Bush believes that he is on GOD's Mission, the more others will band up against the oppressive modern world. The more that we try to move the world towards rationality, the more we try to build a panopticon, the more there will be regions where anarchy is protected and even advanced. No wonder Al Qaeda is winning the war on terror!