The Drama of Obesity

[alizardsbet]

“A Short Satire”

So we have been reading up on the ever increasing drama over fat people. Should we accept them? Why can’t we love them? Are they a repressed people? A people that will have their very own flag soon and marches to demonstrate their rights to be considered equal to that lofty idea of human being. What a sight… that of a sea of rolling, moaning, and we mustn’t forget the fun giggle of obese people slowly driving forth in their scooters for the right…. the right to what exactly?

Well here is my thought on all that:

There are several kinds of surgeries out there for the fat challenged (and yes I am using that vain adjective as I see fit. Sue me. I’ll make you eat shit) one is stapling the stomach, another are certain parts of the intestines (the digestive track) is removed, and of course our favorite liposuction. What do these procedures do for you? Well for the most part the person enduring these procedures get the instant gratification of watch those unseemly pounds of blubber sloft off them, and stay off, AND not having to do a thing for it! (Well almost, there is the pain and coughing up the wads of cash for the pleasure of going under the knife.) There are certain limitations to these nifty little procedures to alter your given features, such as: limiting the quantity you can eat at a given time, having the operation done again, dumping (an unpleasant fact), and then there is cosmetic surgery to remove the excess skin that hangs around the new gaunt figure of a deflated soul. Emerged from their long stay inside the cocoon of their misconceived crutch of gluttony, they are free. Free from the ridicule, the scorn, the inability of a society to love them, they are free of the callous, unconsidered judgment.

Yet to my point, a jab into the dark of that soul that seems so beneficial. A lot of people out there are consciences consumers, most of us care in some fashion for how a product is used, processed, and disposed of, balanced against the direct impact on our wallets. This fraction varies among the masses, but mostly a true statement. We don’t want to be wasteful. Well having read up on the side effects to some extent it is my uneducated opinion that altering the human digestive track to allow vital nutrients to pass unprocessed through the body and then to be thoughtlessly dumped in our sewers is wasteful, On top of the fact that they will have to take vitamins for the rest of their lives to supplement the ones that their bodies can no longer process, wasteful.

The solution to this… in a society that is tightening down on illogical consumption and reckless waste is to revamp the entire infrastructure of the sewer to accommodate for these weak willed spineless cows. Is that right? I think that as a society, those distasteful people with no sort of restraint over themselves should turn on that toilet seat, kneel down before the alter of their self love, and consume that which has left their body unused and is for all practical sense still mostly pure. Save the rest of us a lot of time and tax money.

[CPL CHUD]

I love baconators.

[swivel]

I see fat people as indicators of a successful society.

Much worse is the starvation prevalent under the Soviet regime, or rampant in Africa today.

The morbidly obese are no different than heroin addicts, or alcoholics. They can't resist the urge to press a pleasure button, over and over, even when it has negative consequences.

Something to think about: Almost all life lives on the razor-thin edge of starvation. The reason for this is simple, whatever the "normal" amount of calories are in a population, the individuals that push their consumption rate to the max will have an advantage. For instance, if a cheetah builds a little more muscle mass, it is going to get consume more calories at rest, with the trade-off of getting more calories in a hunt. Primates devote massive resources to the feeding of our brains, but we hover right around the starvation point because of the advantages.

The last 4+ billion years of life have been one of constant "worry" over energy consumption. The ATP cycle rules all. Dwell on this for a minute, because only in the past 80 years, with the invention of the tractor, fertilizers, better seed stock, etc... we now live in a society where 1% of the population is enough to feed, to the point of obesity, the rest of the population, and have enough left over for export. I think about this at least once a week, and it astounds me.

This would be like 10 deer running off in the woods and coming back with enough foliage to feed 990 other deer and themselves to the point of bursting. And having enough left over to send to the giraffe.

If you watch a few nature films, and witness the struggle for sustenance that typifies life, you will learn to smile when you see fat people. It means we really did it, something greater than building the Great Wall, the Pyramids, or putting a man on the moon.

[Athena]

I see fat people as indicators of a successful society.

Much worse is the starvation prevalent under the Soviet regime, or rampant in Africa today.

The morbidly obese are no different than heroin addicts, or alcoholics. They can't resist the urge to press a pleasure button, over and over, even when it has negative consequences.

Something to think about: Almost all life lives on the razor-thin edge of starvation. The reason for this is simple, whatever the "normal" amount of calories are in a population, the individuals that push their consumption rate to the max will have an advantage. For instance, if a cheetah builds a little more muscle mass, it is going to get consume more calories at rest, with the trade-off of getting more calories in a hunt. Primates devote massive resources to the feeding of our brains, but we hover right around the starvation point because of the advantages.

The last 4+ billion years of life have been one of constant "worry" over energy consumption. The ATP cycle rules all. Dwell on this for a minute, because only in the past 80 years, with the invention of the tractor, fertilizers, better seed stock, etc... we now live in a society where 1% of the population is enough to feed, to the point of obesity, the rest of the population, and have enough left over for export. I think about this at least once a week, and it astounds me.

This would be like 10 deer running off in the woods and coming back with enough foliage to feed 990 other deer and themselves to the point of bursting. And having enough left over to send to the giraffe.

If you watch a few nature films, and witness the struggle for sustenance that typifies life, you will learn to smile when you see fat people. It means we really did it, something greater than building the Great Wall, the Pyramids, or putting a man on the moon.

This is a really beautiful post. Bravo, swivel...Bravo. :)

[CPL CHUD]

That's why I see baconators as the crown jewel of human achievement.