I was skinny to begin with and I take an appetite-suppressing drug on top of that (bupropion, Wellbutrin), so Ozempic hasn’t been at the top of my radar. But this article about it in The Atlantic is quite good. Without making the comparison directly, it presents a strong case that Ozempic is the LSD of…
Apparently this needs to be said: eugenics is bullshit. Evolution doesn’t have an end goal or purpose. “Better” doesn’t exist outside of human values, and the psychology of those values is often bullshit, too: fantasies of superiority and nostalgia for the aristocracies of old in all their sadism, etc. Despite having been completely discredited by…
Stuart Hall’s Who needs identity? (1997) is a perfect time capsule of the academic trends that devolved into the trans movement. There’s the original Judith Butler, embedded in discussions of Lacan, Foucault, and Derrida. If you weren’t a humanities nerd, her writing was intimidating. If you were, her whole project was obvious and derivative: take…