Not at all surprising if you know about r/K Theory:
According to the results of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, released Wednesday, the obesity rate in the U.S. increased 2.5 percentage points from 25.5 percent in 2008 to 28.0 percent in 2015.
“Americans have major well-being problems — and some are causing significant harm to the country’s economy,” Gallup concludes on its findings across the five categories.
Along with the increased proportion of Americans donning “plus” sizes, the level of significant stress Americans experience on a daily basis has also increased since 2008, from 38.8 percent to 40.0 percent in 2015.
This is societal decline due to increasing r-selection in action.
Free resources and amygdala atrophy accompany r-selection, and no president has worked harder to engender r-selection.
It isn’t happening evenly. I’m sure many here are about the same BMI and stress level as when Obama started. But among the rabbits, the fat SJWs are getting fatter and fatter, and ever more shrill. I’ll bet the fat welfare queens are the same.
At this point I just look on it as fattening pigs for slaughter. While I am not keen on eating humans myself, I do find it hard to deny that if pet food is scarce in the apocalypse, I suspect our cats and dogs won’t mind being kept well fed on the meat of SJW’s. Having a bunch of fat human hogs walking around with personalities so repulsive we won’t mind killing them to keep Fido fat and happy, can only be seen as a good thing.
Food for thought.
Is the humor at this blog really getting weird lately, or is it me?
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“Is the humor at this blog really getting weird lately, or is it me?”
More outrageous maybe, but wonderfully so, and I for one appreciate it. There’s precious little to laugh at these days, so the humor is a welcome relief as society crumbles around us. Also, in Stefan Molyneaux’s recent podcast on Rules for Radicals, he briefly covered the idea that mockery is an effective political tool, so I think you’re onto something here.
I agree. As already mentioned, I think this is probably how large numbers of northern Italians felt as they cheered the Visigoths on their march south to Rome.
The northern Italians WERE Visigoths by then. And most of the Roman army were goths as well.
Most SJW meat is saturated with antidepressants and other mental health meds. I like my dog too much to do that to him.
K humor is weird in an r-selected society. Humor in general, actually, doesn’t fit the full-on r-selected type, there is too much ambiguity (are they laughing at me or with me?), and (good) humor has something meaningful to say or observe and at times can be just…well, MEAN to a degree.
After spending a good couple of months travelling the US East Coast (from Miami to NYC), the legend of the hugely fat American was entirely exploded for me (as were a significant number of other negative US stereotypes), to the point that I assume this fatness epidemic is largely a West Coast thing.
For the record, Australians, by and large, are a good deal fatter than Americans, to the point that your average Australian supermarket resembles a group shot of the Axiom’s passengers from the movie WALL-E.
Higher levels of Neuropeptide-Y are associated with obesity. I really don’t have anything to associate the mechanism of that with NPY’s primary function, which seems to be mental kevlar — NPY lessens or eliminates the effects of PTSD and other chronic stress disorders. I suspect causation may be reversed — you see NPY levels go up in obese people as an attempt by the body to adapt to the stress of being fat.
Or, those who have harder amygdalae are programmed for colder climes, and the stress of shortage, such as during winter, triggers fat deposition to either keep warmth, maintain stores to get through the shortage, or some combination thereof?
I’m not sure, because you don’t see obesity in people who have earned their NPY like Delta Force operators and Navy SEALs. They have sky high levels of NPY without the obesity correlation. That’s why I think that the causation is reversed, and that elevated NPY without the consequent stress handling ability, mind you, is a result of the obesity.
I think it’s the same way as looking at insulin — in a person with a normal endocrine system, they have tons of insulin in their system because they just ate a bunch of sugar. but a diabetic has tons of insulin in their system because they are jacked up and insulin resistant.
When the dollar suddenly collapses and millions of Obama voters loot and burn all the grocery stores because their EBT cards won’t spit out silver coins, Americans will be very fortunate to have a million tons of excess lard hanging around their collective waistlines.
Sometimes two wrongs do make a right!