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I remember a fictional movie about ants back in the early 70's. The ants were taking over, swarming, killing, getting into places they shouldn't. These scientists were studying the ants out in the desert trying to learn how to control things. Of course everyone died. Horror flick stuff but more cerebral than the "day of the big animal" stuff that followed. That movie had me freaked out about ants getting into places they shouldn't for years. Ugh.
Thanks a bunch, ChrisJericho.
As for hospitals and care, nurses can be the most wonderful people in the world. They'll protect you from fear and despair while saving your life. But they can also be the most jaded, hardened, and incompetent troubleshooters you'll ever meet. Every job has its over and under-achievers. Watch your ass. Should you find yourself concerned about something the staff seems unresponsive to, STOP BEING POLITE. Get the next level up involved as if your life depended on it. It often does.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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