People cling to bad ideas because they feel good and they remove responsibility.

I think a lot of people get the sugar-obesity connection, but it feels better to play dumb and blame it on genetics.

— Ed Latimore (@EdLatimore) March 6, 2019

This attempt to remove responsibility (mostly) explains the Fat Acceptance and other similar movements — even centrism and the like. We are told very convincingly that by choosing between a range of sterilized and indistinguishable consumer products that we are making consequential decisions. This is a lie, of course. We’re every day engaged in a constant and unrelenting battle to control our own minds. In a way, since the advent of organized religion, this has been true. What has changed is that that we are told that making a selection among a range of very circumscribed choices is complete freedom. Most people buy into this (equivalence very much intended) utterly and are flabbergasted when you reject all the options because they didn’t even realize such a thing was possible — and it offends them and scares them, which is exactly what they’ve been trained to feel when someone doesn’t do what’s “natural.”