"The highest aspiration of the modern individual is biological survival, complemented by the state of bovine contentment celebrated as ‘happiness’,.....A true state of health [means] a ‘flourishing life’, not merely in terms of prolonging our bodily existence, but in terms of personal achievement. What matters is not merely feeling good about ourselves, but living and acting well. Happiness is the result of human activity in the world, it is not just a state of mind, and even less mere animal fitness.
Contrary to the solipsistic outlook,...a true state of health has an inescapably social as well as an individual character.The fetishism of the body in contemporary culture, expressed in cults of body enhancement as well as,...narcissism,...is linked to a pervasive fear of disease and an ultimate terror of death. These preoccupations reflect a fantasy,...."
-- Dr. Michael Fitzpatrick, author of "The Tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle", proposing ‘health-obsessed living’ as the worst idea in medicine. He was writing for Spiked! [underlined emphasis, TMR's]
So what have YOU achieved lately - or is it limited to whining?
This can't work in fact, that is exactly what I consider.
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