The Wellness Syndrome by Carl Cederström & André Spicer – exploitation with a smiley face People who fail to look after their bodies are now demonised as lazy, feeble or weak-willed The idea of “wellness” in our age is surely missing something. To achieve wellness, a person must eat correctly (to the point of faddist superfood obsession or orthorexia), get plenty of sleep (perhaps using wrist-borne sleep-tracking gadgetry), exercise regularly (if using a bicycle, please make sure it is stationary and indoors), and have the right socially sanctioned desires for professional advancement and consumer objects. This hegemonic idea of wellness has, however, zero intellectual substance. Once upon a time, people who spoke Latin used to say “mens sana in corpore sano”, which meant at least that a healthy mind was as important as a healthy body, and sometimes that the whole point of having a healthy body was to have a healthy mind. But we live in the age, instead, of the official promotion of “mindfulness”, the aim of which is to calm the mind to a state of bovine acceptance, where nary a thought will trouble it. The modern idea of wellness is opposed to deep thinking. Instead it encourages us all to become happily stupid athletes of capitalist productivity. Continue reading... ift.tt/1zy452h #love #read #text #bookworm #books #words #climax #readinglist #paper #library #author #imagine #pages #instagood #story #plot #quotes #art #poet #literate #book #nook #inspire #prose #poetry #inspiration #ink
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