I got the itch. Jock itch. The interesting thing about "the itch" is the brilliance of the fungus. I read that the more you scratch, the more it spreads.
I bought some anti-fungal cream. The itch subsided. And I went about my business. A day later it started to itch again even with the cream. It dawned on me that the fungus was trying to manipulate me into scratching the area again, so it could spread and survive. Genius.
How the fungus knows to do this is amazing to me. Maybe it doesn't know, and it's coincidence, but I doubt it.
The fungus has developed a method to manipulate the human mind. And it uses the smallest form of pain to do it. The itch. Simply amazing. The intelligence of tiny structures can not be understated. When planet earth gets tired of us humans I get the feeling it won't be a big calamity like a nuclear bomb or a volcano that kills us, but rather tiny microscopic structures. The invisible will figure out a way to eat us alive.
