Yesterday I noted that Republican Senator Joni Ernst had surrendered to TWTOTB, capitulating to Trump who she had earlier firmly disavowed. She, like hordes of previously Republicans who had disavowed Trump have opted to drink the toxic, death-dealing “Kool-aid” that wants TWTOTB. The status quo is always very appealing to any tribe…and certainly has its place…but can often create a tribal demagogue whose black-magic will proffer death-dealing destruction. Early in my adulthood I learned that life has two powerful, twin tensions, the need to stay the same and the need to include change. This is true socio-politically but is also relevant to our individual lives. These twin oppositions is an essential dimension of life itself and if either is overly emphasized there will be “hell to pay.” The “ought” in this expression reveals the deadly temptation to maintain the status quo which is present even in our body, a temptation which is relevant to the onset of cancer. Lewis Thomas in “Lives of a Cell” noted that disease in our physical body will occasionally metastacise into cancer when cellular energy that is designed to reach out and make connection with other cells opts to retreat into a self-serving cocoon. The haven of “the same” for these cells threatens death to the whole body.