the real solutions can only come from the political. Not in the sense that the individual avoids responsibility and blames the state say, but rather that in order to change the conditions which inculcate the unhealthiness in the first place (ie- in this case the sedentary lifestyle is set by the system of infrastructure, town planning, the strains of the kinds of jobs available...). This is why health (no quotation marks) requires a broader view than the merely individual, and must be grounded always in the explicitly political
yes these problems are much deeper rooted, epistemically, in the foundations of the ideas which shape the age we live in (are maybe on the verge of transition away from). but i as an individual will still be trying to break from consumptive patterns in small increments while i wait for economic systems to crash and cities to collapse.
"Capitalism" isn't a league of supervillans who all cackle around a marble table at their secret lair.
STN is funnies.
Capitalism is an identifiable set of assumptions and ideologues, which comprise a particular way of both looking at the world and of organizing it. the notion of Capitalism being "neutral" and consisting of nothing other than the "free will" of its participants is an illusion perpetrated since its conception, and one that still (apparently) keeps its deathly grip on our imagination.