ABSTRACT
Do human beings use language? Or does language use human beings for "its" own purposes? Is it possible that if we use a metaphor of a communicational "physiology" having to do with the economy of symbolism, we can find analogues of "cancer"? If it is moral to root out cancer in the body, is it by the same token important to root out cancer in the body politic? Is the potentiality of infinite expansion of growth the key feature in what we are increasingly understanding of the parallelism between structure in differing contexts, in the isomorphism of processes at the lower and the higher levels of the human condition? Do we need to develop a "terminal" morality which prescribes points of cessation?
