Against Food
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Against Food
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#2I just read the first few paragraphs of this article before I stopped, but my very first instinct reading this is that it feels a lot like old me.
Disdain for basic human things is not a great sign. Eating food and enjoying food is not primitive, it's human, it's good. We do not need to be better than human. We need to be human, we need to excel and enjoy and enhance all of the things that make us who we are.
We are not robots, we're never going to be robots.
Enjoy your food, doesn't mean you're a monkey. It doesn't mean you're primitive. You're doing what all these wonderful marvelous tools we've built for ourselves are intended to do, make your life good and give you the things you need as a person. Smile, enjoy, be happy, and don't be afraid of who you are.
And talk to a therapist if need be, for me this fear of being human came from social experiences in my early life that led me to dislike other people and be afraid of other people.
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#3Just eat fewer times a day. I usually eat one meal a day (though often not quickly, like the OP would like) and it works out great.
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#4To be logical is illogical if you are a human. Obsessive adherence to high ideals without the basic recognition that we inhabit bodies with needs desires and limitations is not logical or superior behavior: It ignores reality and causes psychological trauma, with real consequences to health and happiness.
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#5I just read the first few paragraphs of this article before I stopped, but my very first instinct reading this is that it feels a lot like old me. Disdain for basic human things is not a great sign. Eating food and enjoying food is not primitive, it's human, it's good. We do not need to be better than human. We need to be human, we need to excel and enjoy and enhance all of the things that make us who we are. We are…
True, what an absolutely depressing take, a borderline satirical representation of the body hacking/life optimization cult.
If a friend explained this to me I'd encourage them to seek out a therapy for depression or eating disorders.
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#6In our age one is not allowed to talk about gluttony.
It is the primary vehicle by which many sustain an otherwise meaningless existence
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#7To be logical is illogical if you are a human. Obsessive adherence to high ideals without the basic recognition that we inhabit bodies with needs desires and limitations is not logical or superior behavior: It ignores reality and causes psychological trauma, with real consequences to health and happiness.
I think the article is about how frustrating those needs and limitations can be, not about denying their reality. It is rather exactly the realization that you can’t escape those needs and limitations, but that you have to continuously accomodate them, that can be depressing.
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#8>There is no question that you are the pinnacle of evolution
trading one religion for another, huh? pinnacle of creation, pinnacle of fate, pinnacle of evolution...
maybe buddhists got it right centuries ago: shut up, eat your food and clean your bowl, that's life.
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#9I just read the first few paragraphs of this article before I stopped, but my very first instinct reading this is that it feels a lot like old me. Disdain for basic human things is not a great sign. Eating food and enjoying food is not primitive, it's human, it's good. We do not need to be better than human. We need to be human, we need to excel and enjoy and enhance all of the things that make us who we are. We are…
True, what an absolutely depressing take, a borderline satirical representation of the body hacking/life optimization cult. If a friend explained this to me I'd encourage them to seek out a therapy for depression or eating disorders.
The author talks about going and getting an award winning pastry but not enjoying it at all. Clearly they must at least have a preference for quality food or else they'd just drink Soylent all day.
Like it or not, the fact that we spend so much of our time and societal energy on feeding ourselves collectively instead of hunting and gathering is kind of the whole point of having a civilization. The alternative is every person for themself, and then we really wouldn't have time for any organized higher pursuits.
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#10“Day after day, I swipe the Hinge profiles of girls endowed with the greatest gifts known in the universe, only to find that their hobbies are sleeping and eating. The last million years of evolution has been wasted on them; they might as well live with orangutans.”
Oh, buddy. You’re definitely going to be a hit in the dating scene when your first instinct is to call women boring and basic.