Health wellness as the right path and anyway staying from it as a pervert and a degenerate.
@constant escape this is what I was getting at the other day btw.
The difficulty is that, the revelation is real and staying between those tramlines grants real rewards and becomes self reinforcing better skin more confidence shiny eyes
it seems like as far as "the state" is concerned there is a sweet spot of wellness - whereby the individual doesn't clog up the smooth workings of capitalism. and the fact is that most people (massive generalisation) don't quite fulfill that criteria... so, frustratingly, that's like a very off-putting de facto ceiling.
so on the one hand there's that dilemma - do i not do something because i am told/expected/propagandised to do it? the mature thing is to be able to do something for one's good in spite of being instructed to do it - and that can grate.
HOWEVER - once one starts to really get granular and interested in what wellness means on a more profound level it is intrinsically against the existing order. clean air/organic food/eating less or no meat and from a psychological health point-of-view not exploiting other people etc (the whole pathogenic sin argument)
what i don't accept is
audre lorde's "self-care" idea whereby wellness is political act to preserve an individual who believes themselves to be under attack by the state. presupposes that the system actively wants to crush some people - and i've never been a fan of conspiracy theories.