Zaftig Is Good
link Americans Concerns About Obesity Soar, Surpass Smoking.
Really? One of the things that weighs most heavily on people’s minds is obesity? How about stupidity? How is it that people are made to feel insecure about their physical appearance yet not be ashamed at exposing their lack of intelligence, wit or understanding (otherwise known as stupidity) for the world to see?
We keep hearing about the ‘epidemic of obesity’ as if it were scabies at a frat house. It has been estimated that $40 billion dollars per year is spent on various and sundry diet programs including Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, The Atkins Diet, The South Seas Diet, The Watermelon diet, etc etc. Who knows how someone counts this, but if you include the entire fitness industry, it adds up to some real moolah. So it’s a little disingenuous for people to moan about an epidemic when in fact the livelihoods of millions of people depend on making people feel guilty about having that extra piece of cheesecake.
Perhaps we should blame food companies for making their products taste so good. Evil corporations. Isn’t that the main point of every creature on earth? To get easy access to food? In most of today’s societies, access to food is no longer an issue, so one of the main problems facing mankind has essentially been eliminated. Isn’t that success? Somehow this “obsession” has gotten to the point where people are willing to have a tax imposed on themselves for being fat! Fat tax article They are essentially admitting that instead of controlling themselves, they’d rather pass money to the government than pass on that second helping of lasagna.
If people are worried about their physical profile, that’s a first world problem, sort of like worrying about whether your upstairs maid gets along with the downstairs maid. Oddly, we never hear of this calamity in the Sudan. The only reason this ‘concern’ even exists is because of the media and fashion business. As we all know, the fashion business exists because of their pandering to people’s natural insecurities. They somehow portray the illusion that a 40 year old person can have the idealized body of a 17 year old model if only they wore the same capri pants. As if Rosie can look like Giselle.
We’d be far better off trying to eliminate stupidity. We have a far larger problem of billions and billions of dollars being spent on schools to turn out functional illiterates. If you ask me, I’d rather be living in a society of zaftigs than one of zombies.