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. …
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Must be a Vegan.
Vegan - old injun word ... mean lousy hunter ... ugh ...
Speak for yourself, you jerk, Zoe.
It is feminine in the original Greek.
There is a related word zoon (first o is omega, second is omicron) which is neuter.
She deems the potential ideological effects as being more important than a person’s well-being, which tells you all you need to know.
She would rather you be an unhealthy leftist than a healthy and happy right winger.
That my friend is a fundamental difference between us and them… They look at wealth as a pie in which they are limited number of slices, and taking a slice away from one person is done only to give it to yourself.
We believe that wealth can be created out of thin air!
No kidding! “Psychobabble”...it so perfectly appeals to some people like her.
Can confirm.
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