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> Economic hardship during the Second World War forced the government to institute food rations, and limits on sugar were not lifted until 1953, years after the

by koolba 2y ago

> Economic hardship during the Second World War forced the government to institute food rations, and limits on sugar were not lifted until 1953, years after the war ended. > The researchers found that the people conceived during the sugar limitations had a 35% lower risk of diabetes and a 20% lower risk of high blood pressure than people conceived after the rationing. Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. Turns out it wasn’t just about grit.

eblume 2y ago
I don't know why this has to be about men and strength and cycles of violence. I think this is about value extraction. During times of plenty, we structure our economy to maximize the value, and in our current policy that means putting sugar in everything. It's what makes the most money. We don't factor in the cost, and we don't value the alternatives. We turn sunlight in to sugar in to human fat, because it makes the most money. In war, scarcity and changes in spending priorities mean the economics changes and we don't get as much money in the sunlight->sugar->human fat chain, so we make less human fat. I don't think this is a good idea, but I do think it is what we are doing. But really my philosophy of it is not the important thing here, I offer it merely because, respectfully, I don't agree with your framing.
mountainmonk 2y ago
Or, hear me out on this crazy idea that might just work?. What if instead of wishing for hard times so that we can have "hard men", what if instead of all of that which you know must include a lot of suffering and death in order to make the hard men... What if istead of all of that we just stop putting sugar into every freaking thing?. Crazy idea I know!, but it just might be crazy enough to work!.
- iwontberude 2y ago
  I don't know about you but I enjoy the demonstration of accelerationism as a motivating philosophy. It's really dry satire, but it's hard to read it as anything else. Also, who are you to judge those that want their men to get hard?
  - rustcleaner 2y ago
    ACCELERATE!!

by koolba 2y ago

eblume 2y ago

I don't know why this has to be about men and strength and cycles of violence. I think this is about value extraction. During times of plenty, we structure our economy to maximize the value, and in our current policy that means putting sugar in everything. It's what makes the most money. We don't factor in the cost, and we don't value the alternatives. We turn sunlight in to sugar in to human fat, because it makes the most money. In war, scarcity and changes in spending priorities mean the economics changes and we don't get as much money in the sunlight->sugar->human fat chain, so we make less human fat. I don't think this is a good idea, but I do think it is what we are doing. But really my philosophy of it is not the important thing here, I offer it merely because, respectfully, I don't agree with your framing.

mountainmonk 2y ago

Or, hear me out on this crazy idea that might just work?. What if instead of wishing for hard times so that we can have "hard men", what if instead of all of that which you know must include a lot of suffering and death in order to make the hard men... What if istead of all of that we just stop putting sugar into every freaking thing?. Crazy idea I know!, but it just might be crazy enough to work!.

iwontberude 2y ago
I don't know about you but I enjoy the demonstration of accelerationism as a motivating philosophy. It's really dry satire, but it's hard to read it as anything else. Also, who are you to judge those that want their men to get hard?
- rustcleaner 2y ago
  ACCELERATE!!