"large corporations whose profit-maximising incentive is to game our taste buds by maximising the taste hit."
This is no doubt true. Unfortunately public health also game this truth to feather their own nests. Big Tobacco has been an absolute boon for Tobacco Control. Big Tobacco Control is now itself a global billion dollar industry of academics and activist NGO's who all depend of there being a big problem for their continued existence. Hence the 'problem' of e-cigarettes and other safer forms of tobacco.
The nutrition industry has taken great notice of this and so now we have Big Food, Big Sugar, Big Soda and Big anything we don't like, all used to gather resources to themselves. The specter of David and Goliath is a favorite amongst these groups who use it to gain resources.
It seems like something similar has happened on an individual level, too. we can either seek to dominate others, or seek to dominate ourselves. It seems we have developed a modern welfare personality in addition to welfare state (i.e., emphasis on "happiness", awareness of health and connection to psychology and bodies)
The rise of domestic rent-extraction by the imperial-state and its core clients is almost certainly connected to long-term trends in productivity growth and the structure of the economy. Managing dysfunction domestically is easy enough for elites that have made the strategic choice to deindustrialise or to constrain industrialisation so that its effects do not disrupt existing social relations.
Historically, all successful systems of government needed to maintain public safety, social peace, security from external threats and the maintenance of whatever material condition were needed for the reproduction of society.
The current regime (post-liberal modernity) is indifferent to public safety, undermines social peace, is inept at war and unable to maintain the material conditions for family formation and replacement level fertility of its nominal citizens.
Post-liberal modernity legitimises an ever-increasing incidence of state failure and stabilises oligarchic rule under conditions of social decay. It normalises the conditions of national decline. It does this through curated dysfunction, the central, defining, mechanism of control in Cthulhuland or Cthulhustan, a polity commited to the formation of 'homo debilis' as the preferred human type.
Managing economic decline through deindustrialisation enables regimes to simultaneously target austerity at disfavoured strata while preserving existing social relations and allocating resources to suit regime preferences.
In “The Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith observed that external colonization enriches a few well-placed citizens of the colonizing power but makes most citizens materially poorer. In this essay, you demonstrate that the same pattern applies to internal colonization. Well done.
So, what should the nutrition guidelines look like?
Vampire elites suck.
Amazing work. I'm so grateful you helped spread Warby's work wider.
"large corporations whose profit-maximising incentive is to game our taste buds by maximising the taste hit."
This is no doubt true. Unfortunately public health also game this truth to feather their own nests. Big Tobacco has been an absolute boon for Tobacco Control. Big Tobacco Control is now itself a global billion dollar industry of academics and activist NGO's who all depend of there being a big problem for their continued existence. Hence the 'problem' of e-cigarettes and other safer forms of tobacco.
The nutrition industry has taken great notice of this and so now we have Big Food, Big Sugar, Big Soda and Big anything we don't like, all used to gather resources to themselves. The specter of David and Goliath is a favorite amongst these groups who use it to gain resources.
It seems like something similar has happened on an individual level, too. we can either seek to dominate others, or seek to dominate ourselves. It seems we have developed a modern welfare personality in addition to welfare state (i.e., emphasis on "happiness", awareness of health and connection to psychology and bodies)
THANK YOU
“What we then see is a state apparat that has gone from colonising external territories to colonising its own core territories.”
I have been saying this for years.
In fact since NAFTA, when I observed we 🇺🇸 were now the Plains Indians and the elites the railroads.
Vampire Elite? Lorenzo, did you by any chance ever work in indigenous affairs?
The rise of domestic rent-extraction by the imperial-state and its core clients is almost certainly connected to long-term trends in productivity growth and the structure of the economy. Managing dysfunction domestically is easy enough for elites that have made the strategic choice to deindustrialise or to constrain industrialisation so that its effects do not disrupt existing social relations.
Historically, all successful systems of government needed to maintain public safety, social peace, security from external threats and the maintenance of whatever material condition were needed for the reproduction of society.
The current regime (post-liberal modernity) is indifferent to public safety, undermines social peace, is inept at war and unable to maintain the material conditions for family formation and replacement level fertility of its nominal citizens.
Post-liberal modernity legitimises an ever-increasing incidence of state failure and stabilises oligarchic rule under conditions of social decay. It normalises the conditions of national decline. It does this through curated dysfunction, the central, defining, mechanism of control in Cthulhuland or Cthulhustan, a polity commited to the formation of 'homo debilis' as the preferred human type.
Managing economic decline through deindustrialisation enables regimes to simultaneously target austerity at disfavoured strata while preserving existing social relations and allocating resources to suit regime preferences.
In “The Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith observed that external colonization enriches a few well-placed citizens of the colonizing power but makes most citizens materially poorer. In this essay, you demonstrate that the same pattern applies to internal colonization. Well done.