New information on the
psitacosis variant epidemic which is turning our children into noisy
parrots.
Non-invasive
observation of family groups suggests it is flowing from the mothers
to the babies. (It was known that psitacpsis is related to chlamydia,
but not that humans might be the carriers of the new infection. A
full report will appear shortly in Nature Caffe Nero.)
I want to suggest that
there is a likelihood of a connection to Toxoplasmosis or of a
process similar to the effects of that disease.
Toxoplasmosis, spread
in feline faeces, apparently induces wrecklessness of behaviour,
usually in mice, but perhaps even in humans. The latter is rarely
noted beyond the lunacy of some people with fast cars who kill
themselves, rather than becoming careless prey, because of the
contemporary lack of large felines able to take advantage of human
suicidal tendences.
But in my Caffe Nero
studies, facilitated by the greed of that company who choose never to
turn away anyone with money no matter how antisocially they behave, I
have noted a tendency among mothers to be delighted whenever their
children make awful noises, and more delighted the more awful the
sounds become. Now these noises have developed evolutionarily to be
unbearable to humans; so the sudden delight in hearing them suggests
morbidity.
Attempts to reason with
the infected leads nowhere, they look up with glazed but angry eyes
and scream such irrelevancies as “It's a baby” and “What am I
supposed to do”, behaviour already legitimised by the
outmanouevring by power groups of the threat democracy might have
posed to them. It remains to be demonstrated if this is a function of
the disease or is merely a learned self-defence mechanism.
This is not some sf
story such as entertained an earlier generation, like “War of the
worlds”, but a real and present threat to our potential tranquility
inflicted on us by us. I say to everyone, not watch the skies, but
watch the baby carriers.
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