The phrase “body politic” indicates the similarity of a governmental organization to a human body. A “body politic” can defend, attack, see, hear, grow, shrink, and die.
A “body politic” is also able to be infested with diseases and internal parasites. The Loving Programmer provided the complexities of nature so that we might observe it and learn about our own governments.
When a parasitic tapeworm gets into a human intestine, it hooks it’s head into the blood-rich bowel wall and begins to draw blood from the rest of the body. The heart, mind, organs, and muscles are automatically deprived of nutrients. As the tapeworm takes nutrients from the body, it adds segments.
Each new segment requires that the head of the tapeworm draw more blood from the productive parts of the body. It is obvious that when the tapeworm adds too many segments, the body must weaken and die.
In all of history, not one tapeworm has ever cared more about the survival of the body politic than with keeping itself in a position to drain more nutrients.
