[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic

[Karen Aram]

I won’t read the article, as I don’t like the TNR either.

As someone who has been working out since age 14 on a regular basis, given my Father was obsessed with working out with weights, I am not excessive but I do use make up, and slather myself in cream morning and night, not to mention staying out of the sun. None of this is to keep young but just to keep “me” an aging me, but me nonetheless, given I’ve been doing it all since an early age. Hair color more recent.

Drugs no, irritating doctors, and hippy’s in the past, attempting to push…..alcohol minimal, cigarettes no. Consuming veggies not as much as I should, given I am a semi vegetarian.

However, I agree with the paragraph below, assumed to be written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Keeping the brain fit, is the most important, though I  will not take up crossword puzzles even though it kept my aunts brain functioning into her nineties, unlike her sister, my Mother, whose brain was gone long ago.

Yes, its big business, big bucks even back in the day, sixties before Jane Fonda VDO’s hit the market, when my Father ran a health club, it was all about the money, the kick backs doctors receive from the pharmaceuticals for the prescriptions they write also go back to the sixties, I know this from experience. Some things never change and the baby boomers, those who were sure they should never listen to anyone over the age of 30, aka Mick Jagger, maybe why we have left the mess for future generations as we have.

Now, please don’t send anything more that I might agree with, from that Syria war supporter Louis Proyect, who turns my stomach with his war mongering propaganda. His influence on the younger generations who believe a Marxist would also be an imperialist, is beyond nonsense.


On May 28, 2018, at 07:17, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net<mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:

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From: Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism at lists.csbs.utah.edu<mailto:marxism at lists.csbs.utah.edu>>
Subject: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic
Date: May 28, 2018 at 7:04:22 AM CDT
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Ehrenreich contemplates with some satisfaction not just the approach of her own death but also the passing of her generation. As the boomers have aged, denial of death, she argues, has moved to the center of American culture, and a vast industrial ecosystem has bloomed to capitalize on it. Across twelve chapters, Ehrenreich surveys the health care system, the culture of old age, the world of “mindfulness,” and the interior workings of the body itself, and finds a fixation on controlling the body, encouraged by cynical and self-interested professionals in the name of “wellness.” Without opposing reasonable, routine maintenance, Ehrenreich observes that the care of the self has become a coercive and exploitative obligation: a string of endless medical tests, drugs, wellness practices, and exercise fads that threaten to become the point of life rather than its sustenance. Someone, obviously, is profiting from all this.

https://newrepublic.com/article/148296/barbara-ehrenreich-radical-crtique-wellness-culture
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