I am a communist. It is so hurtful to read the New York Times. They have damaged me in so many ways. Hurtful does not even begin to cover it. The capitalist notion that we can find disease cures via enticing profit, is spitting in the wind. Intellectual profit rights is what drives the NIH.

There is a lot of tension that the scientists create themselves. Around who owns what. The social scientists and the viral scientists have only insinuated relationships. They have inherited the cultural challenges of freedom. We have to decide what we want. Big Pharma will always cause division. The idea of hope hits the brick wall of death. Yet the system that produces progress from Capitalism bleeds out a misappropriation in favor of their intellectual wallets growing fatter by the day.  Americans think AIDS is over. Parents clutching at their pearl necklaces as they faint dead away. Grow up.

I have worked with adolescents with AIDS. Most of these kids have done sex work. Sex? No way. Sex work. Sex and morality. No way. These are called Pearls You Can Chew On. There is no money in it. They claim. Housing, food (for my adolescent boys it comes to $1.39 per happy happy meal). Even with crippling inflation. $1.39, not a $1.40, buys you what.

A carton of eggs costs $2.00, not $1.39. $1.39 is mean, cruel, regressive, hateful, American. It is also cynical defeat. All that money you’ve spent throwing mud at the wall. HIV will be with us (it’s already in our genetic material) forever. Access to sexual education causes conservatives to pull their hair out. Politicians are traitors. They vote to kill our children so why bother having them. We need less children not more, and what the Pope has to say about it is a toxicity we must ban in a lot more effective ways than previous generic bans on bullshit whose claim on reality continues to be beneath contempt. Scientific cooperation is as challenging as a patriarchal template of HIV. The walking dead. Loneliness kills you before AIDS does. 

Science and behavior are lovers who do not know The Other.