Go on – stuff y’face. You know you deserve it.

by LeZSeZ

Go on – stuff y’face you mindlessly conforming¹, relentlessly indulgent², unique and very self-important³, most likely fat⁴,  nutritionally ignorant⁵, environmentally inconsiderate⁶ coddled person – and don’t say you’re not because you are⁷.

High Tea at the Hotel – A Deeply Confronting Scene of Unrestrained Indulgence By Fat People! If You Care, Do Not Show Children.

So there it is.  Your “Freedom of Choice” – in a box or on a stick and your dumb confidence in what your body can take.  Do you actually care what your body can take⁸?  Your choices could just tip you over the edge.

May already have.

Your local neighbourhood cemetery is full of people like you who reckoned the world couldn’t get by without them.  I have some news about that.  When you check out, it’ll get on a whole lot better without you than with you.

And that’s because you deposit a big carbon footprint.  There’s big and there is BIG.

And everything about you is BIG.  Like, you’ve got a big house, you’ve got a big job, you’ve got a big garage and you’ve got big cars.

You’ve also got a big butt and a big gut and a big envious personality, as always ever on the lookout for competing “bigger-musts” who might, in the ever so slightest way, prick your inferiority complex, hidden behind that smarmy smile, which you comfortably feed by showing the world you can live larger and out-consume every other asshole you must include in your “affectionate circle of close friends”.

That’s not yet you at all?  Oh!  Ok.

Maybe you just haven’t been here long enough and so you’re still one of those post-cultural cubicle box-cum-apartment dwelling, catatonic doughheads who live in some disembodied cyber-world where reality is defined by a constant feed of meaningless, ephemeral cultural signifiers, channelled daily courtesy of advertising agency creative designer jerks-offs anf Facebook “friends”.

Or maybe you’re just an “in-between”.

You know – one of those middle class, upwardly mobile, green voting, elite champagne leftist phonies with your Sunday goumet BBQ soirees, fake Paleo-diets and your envy generating five thousand dollar carbon fibre bicycles fitted up with those aircraft-grade, dolly-coloured,  plastic fibre spoked wheels and clinchers which we all agree are very important to have.

Freedom of choice.

So you actually think you have freedom of choice.

You do not have freedom of choice.

Need I say (it would seem I do) that we live in an emotionally constructed, “brandwashed⁹“, abstracted reality that bears zero – that’s mathematically zero as in nothing – zero resemblance to the wonderful ancient world that we evolved in, ever so long ago and now devolve from.

That’s the one we’ve been busily desecrating since time immemorial and being the sentient individuals we are, we gain from the benefit of the experience curve.

So, with the effluxion of time do we indeed get better and better at it and right now, may I helpfully add, we’re desecrating it at an ever greater rate of knots and with greater efficiency and effectiveness than ever before.

I politely mention this for those of you who may not have noticed.

One thing you definitely didn’t notice is the CO2.  Invisible blanketing greenhouse gas and so instruments are needed for clarity.

From the chaps with those instruments and the clarity I now learn, with a low, falling whistle of surprise, that the load of CO2 humanity dumped into the environment in 2010 was more than at any time since the industrial revolution began.

Even higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate chaps four years before.  Wow!!  Another low, falling whistle of surprise.  Even higher!!

From the pretentious, self-serving “disciplines” of Accounting and Economics we further learn that there is no payback to nature.  We take from the environment whatever we want without paying Nature for it.

Ha!  Not bad.

But, as I ponder wistfully and ever so vaguely recall, aren’t Accountants and Economists supposed to concern themselves with the allocation of scarce resources?

Whoops!  Good one guys.

It doesn’t take a great deal of mental horsepower to figure what all of this means.

There is a whole lot of payback owing to Nature and it’s just backing up, like a vast, global, impacted bowel and probably like your’s too, given all the master chef crud you really, really must eat.

And so, in a flush of elegant prose, I can again helpfully point out that . . .

we face an onrushing future that is surely yet to provide a significant and historic inflexion point.

Or, less prosaically and in a style that a shorter attention span can deal with . . .

it ain’t going to be pleasant folks and so with the worst yet to come . . .

But right now, who really cares.

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And speaking of caring, one small point about the feedback box below and your precious opinions – – –

You may care to post some feedback and I may well read it – but frankly it doesn’t count.  If you think that your opinions count, they don’t.  At best, they are unimportant.

You’re not consulted by heads of state and you are not on the verge of a major medical paradigm.  You’re not a head of state and never will be.  You’re just another bozo riding on the back of the bus (which is running on carbon fuels).

Alternatively, what you ignore as unimportant actually does count.  That being your actions and their effect on the environment which, collectively and tangibly, all adds up.

More than likely you’ll continue to define yourself by your wants and your consumption of all you can grasp, with those grasping fat little fingers of yours, along with an overweening personality, neatly complemented by designer shades and a narcissistic personality that’s ever so quick to take offense if your opinions are not received as if they are written in letters of liquid gold.

Mr. Natural – – – Devoted to informing on our modern-day trend to overeating & bad eating and disease and our departure from those days when we all knew less and acted more sensibly.

1 – You just could be.  After all, we can be blind to our blind spots.

2 – More than likely.

3 – Isn’t everyone these days?

4 – If your BMI > 21-22, then that’s too much fat, unless you’re an especially muscular guy.  For girls, they were meant to have more fat than guys.  Not fat yet?  Don’t worry – in time, chances are, you will.

5 – Everyone’s a master chef.  A pathology of nutritional ignorance persists.

6 – Well – that line was crossed when you went beyond satisfying your needs to “catering” to your wants.

7 – I know I’m being just a touch direct but, you know, sometimes one just has to say some things this way.  OK?  Not OK?  Don’t care.

8 – Superficially – perhaps.  Substantively – unlikely.  Read any nutrition research biochemistry abstracts lately?  Do you just buy the advertising line?

9 – We’re bombarded by advertising from cradle to grave.

Most of it is lies and takes advantage of our ignorance, prejudices and preferences.  The consequences on children are brushed off.

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