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

[John W.]

I read  the New Republic article and thoroughly enjoyed it.  The quote in
Carl's original post is a paragraph from the article, not a quote by
Barbara Ehrenreich herself.

John Wason



On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Karen Aram via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

In addition to my long diatribe below, I would like to suggest that baby
> boomers attempts to to stay young, healthy and alive also started in the
> sixties, the whole “Sex, drugs, rock & roll” culture” as I’ve said
> previously may have been creative, and yes it helped to galvanize the young
> at anti-war protests, nonetheless when the focus on the “self” took over,
> which we know Edward Bernays was involved in creating, that ended interest
> in the “collective” moving us into the eighties which was the “greed is
> good” era.
>
> So there are many young people out there, probably joyful at the thought
> of baby boomers demise given what they have inherited from us.
>
> PS I’m also reminded of the fact that many of the baby boomers, spent
> their lives in segregated communities, so it’s only natural that many still
> have attitudes that today reflect racism, something we are less apt to see
> among the younger generations.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Karen Aram via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> *Subject: **Re: [Peace-discuss] Fwd: [Marxism] Barbara Ehrenreich's
> Radical Critique of Wellness Culture | The New Republic*
> *Date: *May 28, 2018 at 12:03:07 PDT
> *To: *"Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> *Cc: *"peace-discuss at anti-war.net" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> *Reply-To: *Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>
>
> 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> wrote:
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
> *From: *Louis Proyect via Marxism <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
> *To: *"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> *Reply-To: *Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com>, "Activists and scholars in
> Marxist tradition" <marxism at lists.csbs.utah.edu>
>
>
> 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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