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about a decade ago, i weighed about 500 lbs.
i lost around 300 of them.
i take no particular sense of validation from having lost weight, and i don't imagine that what i did is representative of anything. i didn't set out to do it, i just changed by diet. i cut out processed foods entirely. i stopped eating what i had always eaten under the impression that it was healthy for me. i had fucked up information and made the best decisions i could based on that fucked up information.
so you cannot tell me there's no social dimension to this general problem of obesity, and you cannot tell me that a big part of it is the subordination of food production to the logic of capitalism, advanced capitalism in particular. to my mind, to not see that is to not see anything at all.
the way i see it, all this moralizing blah blah blah about weight is meaningless. less than that. it's nothing at all: just a kind of gas that gets expended.
but i remember how heavy people are treated because for a long time i was there. i remember. o yes i do.
sometimes i think that people are fucking stupid and nowhere is that more obvious than in cases that involve factors like weight, relative to which there's no particular social sanction for saying pretty much whatever.
but mostly i think that people get alot of stupid information and they work with the information they have and i there's an underlying problem it's the low quality of information. you'd think that wouldn't be a problem in a democratic system. but we don't live in one. look around.
and sometimes because i remember, i get offended by some of the results of what i persist in thinking are reasonable people who work with fucked up information and don't see that it is fucked up manage to say when they direct what they take for their attention to the question of other people's weight.
but i didnt get offended by this thread.
i didn't get offended because it's just that stupid.
it's hard to know where to start.
it's less hard to know that it's not worth the bother.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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