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Chapter 24

PARASITES R US

Let us recap:

Parasites are bad

They suck your blood out of the lining of your sto snakes and roost in the skin of your leg They infect your cat and then ju you feline-centric and irresponsible They take over your blood cells in hopes of infecting passingfro it to destroy your eyeballs They take terrible advantage of snails and birds and ants andtheir bodies and their food and their evolutionary futures They almost starved twenty million people in Africa to death

Basically, they want to rule the world and will crumple whole species like balls of paper and then reshape the undead, ravaged hosts that serve only their reproduction

That&039;s bad But

Parasites are also good

They have bred howler enes help track the history of the hurasslands into windblown deserts They tame your im Then they go and save those twenty s in those other parasites, the ones trying to starve theood, really

So parasites are bad and good We depend on them, like all the other checks and balances of the natural world; predators and prey, vegetarians and carnivores, parasites and hosts all need one another to survive

Here&039;s the thing: They&039;re part of the systeovernment bureaucracies with all those forms that have to be filled out in triplicate, they may be a pain, but we&039;re stuck with them If every parasite suddenly disappeared froer disaster than you&039;d think The natural order would crumble

In short, parasites are here to stay, which is a good thing, really We are e eat, and we consued in slices of rare beef or the toxoplas up our noses from boxes of cat litter And they eat us every day too, fro our cells The exchange goes on unendingly, as certain as the earth traveling around the sun

In a , parasites are us

Deal with it