Thanks to the Internet and non stop media reports on garbage and pseudo science, we are all preoccupied and obsessed with nonsense. How much water we drink per day and what temperature it is, how much sleep we get and our circadian rhythms, superfoods and antioxidants and food allergies and intolerances, psychic energies and essential oils, good and bad cholesterol, grains and probiotics, marijuana curing every disease known to man, GMO’s and organic vegetables, fibromyalgia and joint health, holistic and homeopathic medicine, the list goes on and on.
Not that there aren't some important, legitimate and interesting aspects to some of those things, but most of the people obsessed with them have no clue what they're talking about. That's not entirely their fault. We get our information from reports generated by bogus studies and articles produced by Madison Avenue, not science, reported by corporate shills disguised as journalists. We get our information from self help books and infomercials, twisted and skewed by hucksters and snake oil salesmen, men trying to separate us from our money.
We live in the information age, and we choose nothing but misinformation. It is still the same thing it's always been; we're gullible and easily swayed by the things we want to hear, and we'll give our time and money to those that promise us the world and tell us what we want to hear.
So we smoke and drink and eat fast food and think blueberries will ward off cancer, but we don't even have a clue what an antioxidant is. We cut gluten out of our diet but continue to eat vegetables grown too quickly and genetically manipulated to look fresh longer at the cost of lost nutrients, or a stew of chemicals masquerading as food. We worry so much about getting the right amount and correct quality of sleep that we lie awake at night, neurotic over it. That's why we think footlong sandwiches are eating healthy.
We like to think we're being proactive, but we don't have a clue what we're doing, and they're not going to tell us as long as we're content to pay more money for the word “organic” on the label or for yogurt that makes us poop regularly. By the time anything that is supposed to be good for you reaches market, the powers that be have gutted any regulations that ensure what you're getting is really what they tell you you’re getting.
The bottom line is money and profit, and always has been. That's why slave labor and children make our consumer goods, why there is lead in toys, and poison in the air we breathe and the water we drink.
We know this, but as long as we all keep up the lie and fool ourselves into thinking a few inconsequential lifestyle tweaks will make it all better, nothing will change. The emperor has no clothes, and no one wants to point it out.
So try to eat less processed foods in a well balanced diet and get some exercise. Do everything, good and bad, in moderation. Sleep when you're tired, and if you miss out on a couple of hours make it up the next night. Drink when you're thirsty.
Stop looking for the easy way out, because even though it doesn't exist, someone is always going to be there to offer it to you, for a price. We've been paying that price for eternity.
Not that there aren't some important, legitimate and interesting aspects to some of those things, but most of the people obsessed with them have no clue what they're talking about. That's not entirely their fault. We get our information from reports generated by bogus studies and articles produced by Madison Avenue, not science, reported by corporate shills disguised as journalists. We get our information from self help books and infomercials, twisted and skewed by hucksters and snake oil salesmen, men trying to separate us from our money.
We live in the information age, and we choose nothing but misinformation. It is still the same thing it's always been; we're gullible and easily swayed by the things we want to hear, and we'll give our time and money to those that promise us the world and tell us what we want to hear.
So we smoke and drink and eat fast food and think blueberries will ward off cancer, but we don't even have a clue what an antioxidant is. We cut gluten out of our diet but continue to eat vegetables grown too quickly and genetically manipulated to look fresh longer at the cost of lost nutrients, or a stew of chemicals masquerading as food. We worry so much about getting the right amount and correct quality of sleep that we lie awake at night, neurotic over it. That's why we think footlong sandwiches are eating healthy.
We like to think we're being proactive, but we don't have a clue what we're doing, and they're not going to tell us as long as we're content to pay more money for the word “organic” on the label or for yogurt that makes us poop regularly. By the time anything that is supposed to be good for you reaches market, the powers that be have gutted any regulations that ensure what you're getting is really what they tell you you’re getting.
The bottom line is money and profit, and always has been. That's why slave labor and children make our consumer goods, why there is lead in toys, and poison in the air we breathe and the water we drink.
We know this, but as long as we all keep up the lie and fool ourselves into thinking a few inconsequential lifestyle tweaks will make it all better, nothing will change. The emperor has no clothes, and no one wants to point it out.
So try to eat less processed foods in a well balanced diet and get some exercise. Do everything, good and bad, in moderation. Sleep when you're tired, and if you miss out on a couple of hours make it up the next night. Drink when you're thirsty.
Stop looking for the easy way out, because even though it doesn't exist, someone is always going to be there to offer it to you, for a price. We've been paying that price for eternity.
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