Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I’ve noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these “miracle body regimes” are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?
Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked “the location is right around the corner, you don’t want to walk and maybe save transport money” and they responded “no, we’re old, we can’t do that” before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you’re there to fix.
How about you though?
The battle for autonomous citizenship in a democracy was lost decades ago. Its true roots are the move to venture capital to avoid the WW3 that the previous military centric system would have created by around the 1980’s. The ideals of a warmonger state lend meaning to citizenship. Venture capital is feudalism. It is a system where autonomy and citizenship are in principal opposition to the interests of capital. A military must justify its cost with action. A feudal lord needs a mechanism of servitude but the name is irrelevant. Slave, and serf have been used in the past. No one will ever try to call you one of these loaded terms. They will alter the meaning of citizen until it is functionally equivalent. The feudal serving class are not owners of their tools, land, or means of survival. They have a theoretical right to legal recourse, but mechanisms bar them from doing so in practice.
This makes no sense. You prefer a warmonger state to one based on free enterprise and economic growth because (checks notes) it makes citizenship meaningful? Literally what.
They did not say that they prefer it
Where are you getting that from
Where did I make any kind of statement of personal opinion of preference?
Okay I got nothing. Maybe it makes sense to somebody else.
It is heavily abstracted. It is okay, some people struggle with abstraction. I like to share some of these aspects that are at the extreme of connections that I can make. I can explain my reasoning in extreme detail, but it will just be more layers of abstraction you may find even more frustrating. There are benefits and weaknesses to abstraction in functional thought. It is a form of intelligence; one of many. None are greater or worse, they are just different. I’m drawing deep threads of thought about the history of silicon valley, the semiconductor industry, changes that happened in the late 50’s and early 60’s, the root cause of the USSR collapsed, and an observation about the negative compromise underpinning why liberal democratic ideals get propagandized throughout history. There are always compromises. I was just contrasting them at the biggest picture level.