Paula Deen has Type 2 Diabetes. Quelle surprise. And… it gets worse:
[...] she inked a multimillion dollar deal to become the new face of a Novartis drug used to help treat the disease
[via http://www.nypost.com/ ]
So you get sick and use your celebrityness to promote a drug that maybe fixes it instead of your diet. Most likely the drug just “maintains” your disease at a given level and keeps you dependent on it—because there’s no profit in cures.
You might have noticed that I set the date-stamps in WordPress to prefix the year with a zero. For example, this year is 02012 and last year was 02011. I was born in 01971. These dates are inspired by the Long Now Foundation. Long Now? Ok, let’s look at what we mean by “long now”:
This period of time covers almost the entirety of the neolithic period—the last 10,000 years. We’re really exploring a lifestyle that was before the “long now” and the concept is designed to encourage us to think forward how we run “our business of life” over many future generations. If we can get rid of the majority of diet-induced disease, more of us will all be able to focus more importantly on climate disturbance, population overshoot and ecological stresses and with this better knowledge of nutrition and biodiversity.
Extreme Terra-Forming (A Ring World)
By solving our impoverished ideas of how to run and operate our own biology we can begin the work of building the infrastructure required to get humanity off the planet and into the universe at large–whether that involves terra-forming broken parts of our local platform (Earth) or new remote platforms (Mars), and beyond. We probably won’t “solve” hunger for people living today (in the sense of the next five decades), agriculture has already painted us into a corner with 7-billion people. We already are seeing the strains of population overshoot in prices and irregular food distribution. When you make more food, you make more people. There isn’t any way around that other than to improve your biosphere or expand your biosphere. I don’t think many of us can imagine what 7-billion people means to us. But I do think we may live through some horrific apocalyptic situations when the industrial food and distribution system dependent on oil fails to maintain equilibrium. It’s going to happen, and there isn’t any way to predict exactly when, and its a problem we’ll have multiple times in the current long now.
A Coffeehouse in 1650 Holland
While everyone else calls the lifestyle “paleo” in my mind I think of it as “post-neolithic.” We’re not paleo-humans stumbling in the dark for the knowledge of medicine and nutrition anymore—we’re neolithic-humans who have forgotten how paleo-humans lived and ate. We’re taking our awareness of the “long then” past and bringing it forward to the end of the current “long now,” the next 10,000 years. The revolution of this lifestyle will be similar to the addition of caffeine+communication between ourselves in the Coffeehouse Revolutions starting around 01650—people will gather together to learn about themselves and each other. You can see it already online with thousands of people reaching out to each other in small or large communities online and in fitness centers offline. But these communities also need to think about the problems of ourselves in the long term because these problems are not going to go away because we refuse to think about them.
Prepare yourself and your future generations in this long now and for the next long now, for We are too many and We are hungry.
