Posted on 06/07/2024 10:10:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The more self-actualized you become, the higher you are on self-righteousness, blaming other people’s problems on their failure to be as healthy as you.
OK, this is going to sound a little hypocritical, as I have hard-recommended every activity and pursuit, every wellness wheeze and rejuvenation exercise the modern world has dreamed up. […]
But there is a dark side to wellness, which I always, for shorthand, thought of as political: getting fit makes you more rightwing. The mechanism is incredibly simple: you embark on this voyage of self-improvement, and more or less immediately see results. You feel stronger and more energetic, probably your mood lifts, and pretty soon you think you are master of your own destiny. You’re still not, by the way: destiny does not care about your step count. But until that fact catches up with you, which it may never, there you are, high on self-righteousness. You can tell this has happened to you when you start inhaling performatively, like the hero of an Ayn Rand novel.
Inescapably, you start to situate other people’s problems within their failure to be as fit as you. This is particularly true if you don’t know them and they’re just a bunch of numbers. All those statistics — depressed people, obese people, people with IBS — imagine how much better they would be if only they took responsibility for their health, the way that you have.
And yet that harsh, judgmental inner voice will never be satisfied just shouting at numbers, so sooner or later you’ll turn it back on yourself. Fitness has a capitalist logic — I guess because there’s so much money in it? — so nothing is ever enough. …
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There is absolutely no one else responsible for your health BUT you.
Your problems are your problems. We can help each other, though.
This reads like somebody doing a great deal of projecting, and trying to convince herself that she isn’t.
Poor Zoe. For her, every day is a bad hair day.
All I see is the leftist socialist DEI folks lecturing us on how virtuous they are and how wrong we are.
Zoe is mentally unstable. Exercise can help stabilize the mind.
Personal responsibility and all that.
Every day is a brain dead day for her.
Basically, the suthor is saying that healthy and fit people are conservatives. Sick, demented individuals are liberals.
Okay. I can agree with that.
She uses the oxymoron “rightwing jerk”.
She however cites herself as a fitness freak, but everything she describes as right wing is left wing instead.
It would help if she washed her hair every month or so
She could also use some make-up tips. It’s not going to make her into a knockout but she’d definitely look better.
That is absolutely right.
They’re just projecting, as usual.
So I guess that means that all of the slovenly fat slobs I see every day are Democrats.
This story is c r a p but being in good physical conditioning will equal a good life.
Look at people that retire young and are snowbirds for your examples.
Because people don’t want to hear HER whine and complain about HER self-inflicted problems, they are therefore right-wing.
--Courtesy of Google.
Gaslighting at its best. Leftists are toxic.
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