It’s Not Rocket Science

Generally, those who look badly out of shape, are out of shape -- and those who look in good shape, are in shape. One doesn’t have to do fine-testing to determine that; one just has to be able to see the obvious -- and in seeing the obvious, the solutions are also apparent. Thus, the difficult part for most, is just admitting what is obvious to everybody else -- that one is badly out of shape, unless there is this agreement that nobody will admit to it, and what they see is the “normal,” acceptable aging process.

However, there is enough evidence around that not everyone ages in that “normal” pattern of increasing deterioration and accumulation of bodyweight -- which is obvious, unless the culture demands nobody see it. And so that cultural blindness is what is politically correct and socially acceptable -- that people just become grossly out of shape, and nobody can say a word in judgment about it.

However, there will be a small band of mavericks who will not accept that consensus reality -- and for whom life will be very different. They will continue to improve throughout their lives -- rather than exhibit this marked disintegration that even former world-class athletes are not unconditionally immune from. In fact, often the most drastic cases of deterioration occur in those who at one time were indefatigable and invincible. They frequently drop off from superhuman regimens to virtual zero activity -- along with losing their motivation for any improvement or involvement -- since to them, it represented total dedication and devotion, or nothing else was ever offered as an option.

For most people though, seeming to be in good condition, is for all practical purposes enough to be in the modern sense of it. One doesn’t need to be running a marathon every weekend, or setting a new bench press record, in order to consider oneself in “good shape.” It’s not a fine line between being in good shape and bad, that one needs precision instruments monitored by a team in white lab coats, to determine one is in good shape or not. Usually, just putting on one’s clothes, or taking them off, for that matter, tells them whether they are or not.

But even in this, one can come to deny reality -- and then blame everything else for one’s problems, including and especially, the President of the United States, for everything going wrong in one’s life -- as we see daily in the media. Rather than changing themselves, these people will insist that everybody in the world change to accept them as they are -- “perfect,” and so they need do nothing to improve their own situation, perspectives and attitudes.

However, the rest of the world better shape up to their approval -- or there is “no hope for the world,” when that is just the projection of their own fitness and prospects for the future. That is mostly the problems reported in the media these days -- of projections of the reporter’s own despair and ineptitude.

Headlines like, “Are We Winning the War?,” as a poll, rather than a report of facts, are the typical reporting of the news -- that is only a test of the effectiveness of their propaganda. “Is America Too Fat?” should not be a poll question or study but an obvious answer apparent to anyone.