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a healthy body and confident mind has the most number of options of how to live, and to creatively produce.
it's only taken me 25 years to begin to figure this out
a healthy body and confident mind has the most number of options of how to live, and to creatively produce.
the 2 are very much related, and it's an interesting equation, but creative and ambition is not the same as libido and they each can exist without the other.
a healthy body and confident mind ...
with that said i do love my weed.
Except that such - when unqualified - statements become indistinguishable from the incessant super-egoic injunction of today's reality principle, of capitalist realism, of emulating Arnold Schwarzenegger and his gym junk ...
The telos (of lack), only permitted after the regime that produces 'a healthy body and confident mind.' 'Because I'm worth it!', as Jane Fonda, Bill Clinton, etc, like to squeal.
Except that such - when unqualified - statements become indistinguishable from the incessant super-egoic injunction of today's reality principle, of capitalist realism, of emulating Arnold Schwarzenegger and his gym junk ...
The telos (of lack), only permitted after the regime that produces 'a healthy body and confident mind.' 'Because I'm worth it!', as Jane Fonda, Bill Clinton, etc, like to squeal.
so i enjoy both excercising as well as a drink and a smoke, so what? you are implying that makes me a republican? what is your point exactly?
the whole discourse around "health" and the emphasis on it has been hijacked by capitalism, wouldn't you say?
it is not necessary that these statements are indestinguishable. what i choose to do with my life is distinguishable from what people like the Governator choose to do with theirs.
how can you fight for things you believe in, not to mention the enemy, if you are unhealthy? the physically unfit and sickly artist is such a damaging stereotype it pisses me off that people romanticise heron chic in relation to creativity.
artists need to stop falling victim to such stupid notions -- and empower themselves. physically, financially, politically, socially.
so i enjoy both excercising as well as a drink and a smoke, so what? you are implying that makes me a republican? what is your point exactly?
Sure, it's just that ideas of health extend far beyond the questionable notion of the body as well-oiled hierarchical machine in the service of some other.
And surely today, the mediatized obsession is not with the 'sickly artist' but with the sickly performance-enhanced athlete/consumer?
Disciplined resistence to the oppressive status quo is a sickly notion, as opposed to an extremely healthy one? Empower yourself: Get With The Programme (even as it kills you)?
As most of us do. It's the paradox here (getting 'healthy' in order to quickly abandon it, and vice versa, and then quickly reversing everything again) that serves as a symptom of the contemporary deadlock, not indulging in even more as a (ideological) 'solution' to it.
not sure if i understand this... are you saying that health is more than proscribed condition of optimum slave labor productivity? if you are, that is also what I am saying. so we agree?
so if capitalism co-opted "health", we should all become sickly to "become a force of resistance" to capitalism?
it's only taken me 25 years to begin to figure this out
nomadologist said:"heroin chic" is a now a cultural fossil from the 90s
i like the brunette better than the blonde. i'm pretty sure.
(i checked the forum rules and posters are allowed 1 stupid comment per every 25 good ones. I have a little stack of them saved up)
ah, it must be so exciting joining your first discussion board
goomba we all agree with matt b.
the only reason no one else has told you to read the posts before answering them is because we don't think you are worth our time.
now do something other than waste everyone's time or piss off.
Fair enough! I'll take it on the chin and leave then! Sorry to bother you all.
Cheers