You offer your view/counterview narratives as skeptical trial balloons but I think you needn't be so skeptical. That is, interpretation of any phenomenon--fitn

You offer your view/counterview narratives as skeptical trial balloons but I think you needn't be so skeptical. That is, interpretation of any phenomenon--fitness, education, programming, etc.--can be done enthusiastically or critically, as an encomium or a critique. (There are other modes, but I'm focusing on these two here.) Being able to do both is central to understanding that interpretation or judgement is not an objective act of reception but a guided act of perception. Without the skeptical mood, your narratives reveal that none of the acts of fitness, education, and programming are unalloyed goods or unmitigated problems. Rather, they are things that can be perceived differently depending on what one takes into account. Knowing this enables us to make decisions with greater information and, hopefully, deeper wisdom, even as it complicates what from a more limited perspective may seem straightforward. EDIT: add "more" in last sentence.