H1N1: Human Non-Human Network Ecology
H1N1 is a subtype of the species affluenza 21K virus. The “H” refers to humanity’s precarious position as a stable keystone species on Spaceship Earth, and the “N” refers to the network of non-human actors who have, up to now, supported our unsustainable lifestyle.
H1N1 has mutated into various strains including American EcoExceptionalism, Mildly Dystopic British Nanny state, and Full-On Fascism (largely extinct in the wild) and various strains found in the brains of most humans sleepwalking their way towards the singularity, ignoring our interdependence on other nation states, and the state of non-human actors.
A variant of H1N1 was responsible for the Easter Island collapse, the maladapted Greenland Norse, and the Polynesians of Pitcarian island’s impermanence. Low pathogenic H1N1 still exist in the wild today, causing roughly half of all unsustainable lifestyles. However, when the Bretton Woods institutions became operational in 1945, H1N1 became a normalized mental virus, and unmeasured flows of capital sloshed around the globe, creating non-linear effects with indeterminate fitness functions and selection mechanisms.
These changes in monetary policy spread into the realm of the non-material, and vectoral intellectual property regimes continue to try to hoard seeds, cures, and standards for the most powerful actors, damaging the prospects of a full return to health for the planet. In 2006 it was noticed by the President that the United States was addicted to oil, and this was identified as one of the major avoidable health risks that was exacerbating the spread of the virus. So far, little has been done in the area of alternative energy, and zero emmision living, to bring the system back to balance.
