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I can't help but feel like this will divide society. Like fast food and eating healthy. Everybody knows eating healthy is better for you, but a lot just can't b
by saintPirelli 8y ago
I can't help but feel like this will divide society. Like fast food and eating healthy. Everybody knows eating healthy is better for you, but a lot just can't be bothered. Consuming media on the most addictive feeds will be the same. Only this time we won't have an obesity epidemic, but an epidemic of retardation and uselessness.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoThose that define "healthy" are usually ones you don't want to listen to. Greg Egan wrote quite a lot about the power dynamics of the word 'healthy'.
- saintPirelli 8y agoI'm not saying you should follow some guru when he says that licking mud will wake your inner djinn, I'm saying eat your broccoli.
- aethertron 8y agoWhere did Greg Egan write about that? I'd be interested to read it. I've only read one of his novels, plus some supplementary writing on his site. I plan to read more.
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoEgan mentions "health" in Distress, primarily surrounding those that define the word and set the bar what "healthy" is. Alongside that idea, lies the ultrarich who have rearranged their DNA to a point they are invulnerable to every known disease, most chemical toxins, and more. They're also physically a different species, as they are incapable of making young with other humans.