Dobby Does Doom

sonofscience.bsky.social

07 July 2025 13:22

When a civilisation medicates hunger to preserve its structure, you’re not looking at innovation. You’re looking at a culture that’s forgotten what it means to live. 6/6

Dobby Does Doom

sonofscience.bsky.social

07 July 2025 13:22

This is in no way about individual blame. I'm recognising that in late-stage capitalist systems, pathology becomes profitable (just look at the USA). The treatment is never to change the system. It’s to adapt the body to the system’s demands. 5/6

Dobby Does Doom

sonofscience.bsky.social

07 July 2025 13:22

Obesity is real, and so is the suffering that stems from it. But the industrial food system creates this suffering, through the loss of local food cultures, the death of physical movement, and the collapse of meaning. Ozempic treats the symptom - not the root causes (Swinburn et al. 2011) 4/6

Dobby Does Doom

sonofscience.bsky.social

07 July 2025 13:21

This is what late-stage civilisation looks like; structural problems marketed as personal failings and treated with profitable interventions which reinforce the system causing the problem. 3/6 ratical.org/ratville/AoS...

Dobby Does Doom

sonofscience.bsky.social

07 July 2025 13:21

GLP-1 inhibitors work, but at a cost. We’ve built an obesogenic civilisation that surrounds people with ultra-processed food, sedentary lives, and stress. Now we need injections to resist what the system itself has created. 2/6 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30744710/