If the ancient world was primitive man finding ways to conquer nature and thus come to dominate his habitat, the modern world has taken things to another level.
The modern state is a construct with interests sometimes at odds with rather than aligned with those of its inhabitants. Some of its minions, the industries, tend toward a parasitic relationship with these inhabitants.
We see this in the medical-pharmaceutical complex where treatment is preferred to cure. Keep buying our costly meds to alleviate your discomforts. But, we’ll keep what causes your discomfort a mystery.
The processed foods industries are another parasite assisting modern states in keeping their colossal population numbers high, at a manageable cost. As a bonus, the cheap manfeed distributed to the masses is a terrible diet for a human being. This in turn keeps the medical-pharmaceutical complex happy with a steady flow of sickly but still living and high paying customers.
We can think of the modern system as a form of autophagy.
Over at In Mala Fide, there is a blog entry called The Paleo Crash Course offering some alternatives to the modern state diet previously addressed. Here are some highlights:
- minimize grains, corn, soy
- minimize table sugar, candy, cake
- peanuts are bad beans not good tree nuts
- maximize meat and vegetable
- fill in with fruit and tree nuts
- monitor your performance with dairy
A simple solution against allowing contemporary society to consume our lives in order to sustain itself is to change our own habits to what extent we are able. By replacing its often dubious products and services with our own knowledge and efforts, we can help to circumvent this false symbiosis.
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I went paleo in January and it radically altered my life. I am healthier than ever, more motivated, and my head is clear like a cold stream in Montenegro.
This diet is not just an alternative, it is a necessity for a healthy life.
This diet is very necessary in our society.
It would do a good job of cleaning our race and getting rid of the beta races.
I’m seriously considering going on this diet.
I have started to slowly integrate this diet into my life. I must admit, it is hard getting away from all of the poisons that modern food provides.
The hardest part is dropping grains from your diet, something I have not yet fully accomplished although I am about 80% there.
Grains can be more addictive then cigarets or drugs to some: http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p18.htm
Good to see practical articles like this! It’s a natural result of acting upon the theories that we discuss.
I’ve dabbled in the Paleo lifestyle, but haven’t gone all-out with it. A few of interesting discoveries:
* Roasted almonds and no-sugar-added dried berries with milk (I do fine with dairy, those who don’t can use coconut milk) make for a really good breakfast cereal substitute.
* Turning vegetables into Indian food, like veggie curry and the various saag dishes, is pretty easy and really adds some variety. And the smells and sights make your brown-bag lunch a real conversation piece.
* Endurance running does jack squat for weight loss, but it makes you feel better and sleep better. It’s probably what we’re built to do, and we’re pretty unique for it; some bushmen still hunt by tag-team-chasing antelope to death. Only equids and canids can cover overland distances at relative speed the way that anatomically modern Man can, so it’s no wonder that we’ve become so close to certain members of those families.
* A lot of people have absolutely no resolve when it comes to stuff like this. I was on a trip with the inlaws this weekend, and the mother-in-law was reading a diet book detailing pretty much what’s discussed here; she was fascinated with it. When it came time for lunch, we drove right past Subway (not bad for fast food) and went to KFC (absolutely terrible).
Thanks for an informative piece – I’m going to investigate the paleo diet. Lee
I’m glad this post came up. It is great thing to stimulate brain like amerika does, this beautiful output of healthy thought. But without the body, without physical strength, what is life? It is garbage.
The other half of the amerika coin is physical strength, health; prowess. This is the complete man.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/
this is a great paleo/westona price blog, the archives are amazing and well researched
Great post! Lifestyle change begins with smart choices, and our ancestors (for the most part) made the right ones. The paleo-diet has many interesting applications, and is a vital part of the “Depression Cure” by Dr. Stephen S. Ilardi, PhD. To summarize his book, humans are simply not biologically evolved to thrive in an industrial or post industrial society, and the lifestyle required by it (modernity) is profoundly unhealthy at best and destructive emotionally and physically at worst.
Below are the steps in the depression recovery program he pioneered:
A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which are critical building blocks for brain structure and function (read paleo-diet)
Enjoyable activities that keep us from dwelling on negative thoughts
Exercise that stimulates important brain chemicals such as serotonin
Sufficient sunlight exposure to keep the body’s clock in sync
Social support to protect against the damaging effects of isolation (ideal, hunter-gatherer tribal units)
Healthy sleep habits that allow the brain and body to recover
Seems more and more, the criticism of modern liberal capitalism and political organization reaches out to every realm of modernity.
I was wondering why I was so damned healthy…
Once I discovered I was more-or-less Celiac, and cut out wheat, barley and rye, my whole body / outlook changed for the better.
Fortunately I have a wife who insists we eat healthily.
Too late for my teeth though. Too bad.
Great article!
I still remember when corrupt got into it. It takes some modifications, but easily managable. It reminds me of the mongolian diet – meat, raw meat, dry meat, milk, dry milk, sour milk, and dry sour milk. A breakfast of champions, guarenteed to make you conquer half of eurasia