I truly do understand why the Fat Acceptance (and related) propaganda is so popular and so powerful. Why it works. Humans will always tend to take the easy way, to tread the soft path. Indeed, it is just our natural tendency, and in fact the natural inclination of all life. And this “soft path” has been made very comfortable indeed by both the production of low-quality pseudo-food items and the surrounding and supporting disinformation and misinformation environment that has even infected our science about such topics, making it low-quality as well, and of low value.

The antonym of propaganda is truth, and the truth is that if we existed in a different and improved information and social environment that elevated human dignity and human achievement, being 400 pounds and on the way to an early grave would also not be seen as a personal defect, but rather something we could help someone with, to raise them up to be better than they are. We could improve both the lot of humanity collectively (I know, bad to talk about now as it’s “eugenics” or something), and we could assist individual people, all without shaming them or diminishing their humanity in the least.

It is possible, and not even that hard, but the main drawback of a program like this is it would not make anyone, and certainly not the right people, any money. But it’s certainly possible, and the brute reality is that it would cost less and benefit society (and nearly every individual) far more than what we are doing now, but that we are not even allowed to imagine that such a thing could occur. By “not even imagine”, I mean even most self-professed liberals do not even possess the cognitive tools to think about such things, bathed as they are in a propaganda environment that utterly squelches such ideas. Most are so far gone that if a society-wide program of human betterment is discussed, they cannot even comprehend what you are talking about.

It really is that bad. Propaganda works, and it works best when people do not even realize they’ve been infected and become true believers of absolute nonsense. Which is where we find ourselves now.