Thinking about this post and the fact that many Americans take the absurd decrepitude and early senescence of the people around them as some sort of given, of the way it just has to be. In reality, though, it’s a consequence of living in an obesogenic and extremely unhealthy environment and doing nothing to counteract this.

No, your body doesn’t just magically decay at some enormously advanced rate when you hit 40. Bones don’t just start breaking and cognitive decline doesn’t begin accelerating at some frantic pace, either. Not as some natural and ineluctable fact, that is. Neoliberal propaganda and those behind it want you to believe this hooey of course, because it’ll keep you mindlessly consuming. But it definitely is not just how it must be.

The Fat Acceptance movement is really a brilliant psyop. It leads people to hate themselves while pretending to be happy, causing them to consume more, thus they despise themselves yet more as their health and physical appearance decays further, thus causing more consumption, including of medical services, in an endless cycle of capitalist-friendly self-hatred, all while they loathe those who manage to escape all this.

The “inevitable sharp decline” narrative is a false one that allows the cycle above to continue. Anyone who supports it is just a propaganda mouthpiece.