Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, Rare Genetic Condition, Accelerates Aging In Seven-Year-Old Ashanti Elliott-Smith (VIDEO)

Humans don't really know anything yet. . .we're only starting to learn, and we're consistently hampered by the Faust-Frankenstein paradigm that 'There are some things man was not meant to know.'



This has especially made the United States suffer in the sense of medical research over the past ten years.



We crawl, little by little, grasping what little knowledge and wisdom we can. it's been that way since humans first arrived, and it'll continue into an unforeseen future.



We think we're the lords of creation, but a simple virus or bacterium can put the lie to that as easily as a bullet or a bomb.



So much for the 'lords of creation'.



At the risk of sounding trite, DeForest Kelly made a telling statement in his role as Leonard McCoy, MD, when he repeatedly referred to this as a period of 'witch doctors'.



This is our own outlook towards the past of medicine.



However, centuries ahead of the posutlated Federation world, those living then would look to McCoy's own period as that of 'witch doctors'.



And so it will be. . .we'll build on the past, but there'll remain things out of reach. And when we reach them, there'll be other things, even further out of reach.



It's been said that 'Every man and every woman is a star'. One could then liken the victims of progeria to novae, burning themselves out. . .but oh, so brilliant, so bright and beautiful a flame. . .
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