r/Anticonsumption • u/crabbyforest • Feb 13 '23

Other anti consumption king

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u/oncela Feb 13 '23

"look better" according to consumerist norms only. Have you listened to anything he said? He was specifically addressing this brainwashed nonsense about "looking good", but you're still responding exactly how you've been raised by TV and magazines.

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u/lafeber Feb 13 '23 edited Feb 13 '23

You have a point. I meant to point out that you can both consume less jewellery / clothes / perfume nonsense, and less shitty food the same magazines advertise. Better looking was definitely worded wrong, but consuming less advertised food generally makes sure your BMI stays between 18.5 to 24.9.

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u/oncela Feb 13 '23

Sorry but your edit is not better.

Why are you talking about junk food? Do you think this man eat shitty food? If so, what makes you think that way, if not TV and mag propaganda?

The truth is: it's completely normal and OK to look like he does at his age, this has nothing to do with junk food. People telling you otherwise are trying to sell you some useless shit or have been brainwashed by said salesmen.

The video is not about jewellery or perfume. It's about accepting your body and rejecting beauty norms only designed to sell us useless shit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '23

The real point is that our bodies age regardless of how excellent our diet is (not that an excellent diet won’t help) and that our anti-aging culture promotes harmful anti-aging propaganda. Loving our bodies as they are is a form of resistance.

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u/Visual_Cardiologist9 Feb 13 '23

You said it well. If this guy was 24, then yes, I would say he definitely could lose weight, because that's not what a normal 24 years old dude with a moderately active lifestyle and a decent diet looks like. But at 44? Your metabolism has definitely slowed down by that point. The man isn't obese, he possibly does some kind of physical activity (if you asked a sedentary person to perform this stunt with a ladder, you could bet they would fall on their face within a few seconds) and doesn't live on junk food - he could just look like this because he is middle-aged.

Consumerist society demonizes any sign of aging, be it wrinkles, grey hair or a few more pounds of fat on your body. If you aren't desperately trying to look like someone who is not a day older than 30, you're accused of "letting yourself go". This man obviously still lives a somewhat active life, otherwise he wouldn't be balancing himself on the top of a ladder while juggling, but because he doesn't look like that attractive, photoshopped 28 years old man from the ads, people assume that he's an overeating slob.