Global DNA.

Before we can identify the things that function as the immune system and DNA for the human race we need to remind ourselves of the roles that the two play within an organism. The immune system is a very complex system and the only one of the body's systems that has no boundaries. Its primary role is to maintain a balanced condition, otherwise known as homeostatis, within the organism. It does this by trying to figure which of the many microorganisms within the body belong to the body, and it destroys or disables any that it identifies as alien. But the immune system does not act on its own. It obtains its instructions from the DNA molecule. When there are flaws in the instructions in the DNA the immune system may misidentify part of the self as being alien and then we have autoimmune diseases where the body attacks itself. Cancer is another result of a flaw in our DNA. In this case cell division goes wild in one or more cells. These cells have begun acting as aliens because they received alien instructions from the body's DNA.

When applied to the human race we immediately find the reason for all our problems. Whenever one human is viewed as an enemy the result is behavior that resembles cancer or an autoimmune disease in the body. The moment the body identifies a foreign agent it attacks it. This is what we observe as war and violence among humans. War and violence are not our problem but indicators of the problem. We fight each other because we view each other as potential enemies. We fight wars because we wish to destroy those we believe are the cause of imbalance in our societies.

Each of us is a part of the immune system. Next time we will take a look at our global DNA.