You are what you eat.
Have been told this many times, usually by a female with my best
interest at heart. Eating a greasy hamburger, with greasy French fries, washed
down by a sugar rich Coke, will make you a sugar pumped greasy sort’ a guy. Living
off of Butterfinger candy bars and 1 liter cokes will make you a diabetic. The
McDonald’s clown is apparently a long term customer who took all meals at
McDonalds, for several years, slowly morphing into the present day clown.
Wandering around the grounds, an addled brain waiting for the next Breakfast
Mac.
Your body takes the food offered then repairs physical damage,
and constructs replacement parts for worn out parts. It certainly makes sense,
one cannot argue the logic. A clear case of garbage in, garbage out, except the
garbage out is your heart muscles.
The second point is that we eat what we like. Many of us
find a greasy hamburger tasty, and high sugar drinks are almost addictive. Our
better long term judgment is trumped by short term pleasure. Although an interesting
side question would be, why do women make this better long term choice more
often than men? But, who cares? (A typical male response).
If this is true for our bodies, what about our minds?
You are what you read. I could expand this to audio and
visual input, you are what you listen to, and you are what you watch. Constant
input of greasy intellectual rot will result in greasy mental processes. The
brain will become clogged with conspiracy theories, just as the blood arties
become clogged with fats.
This seems only partially true, I read conspiracy theories
all the time, mostly for entertainment, I find the various claims and ideas so
ludicrous as to be astounded. The irony and total lack of self-awareness is wondrous
to observe. I watch Fox News, but I have not started to believe that President
Obama spent $100 million on some vacation jaunt, because the book keeping doesn’t
work. I read the writings of the climate
change deniers, but I haven’t started to believe that climate change theories
are invalid because it is not possible to measure temperature.
(Just a moment to side note. The climate change deniers do argue
that temperature measurement systems did not exist before the Laws of Thermodynamics
were written. There forth, any claims about global temperatures from, say the
time of Christ, are completely bogus. Furthermore, any claims about temperature
or carbon dioxide for, say the Precambrian era, are invalid because no one was
there to measure it.)
Getting back to the “you are what you read” idea. While I personally
read mentally toxic material, I possibly have immunity due to a pre-existing
cerebral condition. I was exposed to far right ideology by a very kind, and wonderful
Grandfather.
We take vitamin supplements to offset dietary imbalance, and
we workout to fight the excessive calories. Perhaps something similar can be
done to protect us from the bad science mafia?
1 comment:
This one is funny, besides being interesting. I agree 100%: society brainwashes its citizens. I recommend associating with foreign individuals, learning other life habits, to balance the American way of life.
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