Frantz Fanon

This is a structural critique that asks what happens when the conditions produced by capitalism, by public health, by the state apparatus, and by anti-Black desire align around a single bodily ideal that leaves little to no room for divergence and punishes any body that does? Whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction, GLP-1s are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint.

But to understand why the deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic requires turning to Frantz Fanon's account of Black flesh under colonial surveillance.

Black flesh under colonial surveillance.

Think about that.

And, you know, that that's the other direction, you know, that the metaphor of the tip of the spear, you know, could catalyze.

And he quoted here, in other words, speaking about Jalil Muntakim's metaphor, Maybe he was deploying this phrase as a tactician, much like Frantz Fanon when he wrote, quote, it is among these masses in the people of the shanty towns and in the lumpen proletariat that the insurrection will find its urban spearhead.

OK, so that's the way we should be looking at it, not this blade of the scissors.

But what I think is.

Whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction, GLP-1s are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint.

But to understand why the deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic requires turning to Frantz Fanon's account of black flesh under colonial surveillance.

Listen to your stupid melt.

If you lose some weight, you aren't going to be genocided, right?

drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction, GOP ones are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint.

But to understand why the deployment of GOP ones is fascistic requires turning to Frantz Fanon's account of black flesh under colonial surveillance.

The political deployment.

Guys, I don't.

about yes exactly And, you know, even looking sort of wider than that, the philosopher Otto Spengler, who's one of the great sort of philosophers of the West, in his book on the decline of the West, sort of identifies Westernness with the Faustian, the questing spirit, right? The hungry mind and the pitiless dark.

we reached this very delicate moment where not only do we conquer all the territory that was available to us to conquer, but at the same time, that sort of motion into the future, that quest for the next thing, brought us also to genuine moral insights about conquest, which I know this makes me a little bit lib to kind of grant that there's something to this, but It wasn't just Frantz Fanon and the wretched of the earth that convinced us it was bad to kick people out of their territory.

It was also the implications of the American experiment itself at a philosophical and an intellectual level kind of made us think twice about and reconsider the mode of conquest in the 21st century.

And this brings me to Mars, right? This brings me around to space exploration because it does seem as if like one thing that really speaks to people and Greenland is another example because like there's basically nobody in Greenland, right? It's almost a proxy for the idea that now in this next phase of our history.

Whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction, GOP1s are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint.

but to understand why the deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic requires turning to Frantz Fanon's account of black flesh under colonial surveillance.

Oh, boy.

When you have some sort of victim mentality, you will find any way to not take accountability for anything you do at all.

Whereas earlier diet drugs were often associated with vanity or addiction, GOP1s are positioned as responsible medicine, promising relief rather than restraint.

But to understand why the deployment of GOP1s is fascistic requires turning to Frantz Fanon's account of black flesh under colonial surveillance.

The political deployment of GOP1s is fascistic.

This is just wild.

Quote, this is a structural critique that asks, what happens when the conditions produced by capitalism, by public health, by the state apparatus, and by anti-black desire align around a single bodily ideal condition? that leaves no room for divergence and punishes anybody that does.

You clear? I mean, he connected the dots so wonderfully there, didn't he? But to understand why the deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic requires turning to Franz Fanon's account of the black flesh under colonial surveillance.

Hmm.

Without a population to discipline, there would be no body mass index, no obesity epidemic, and no medical or scientific institutions organized around managing fatness.