We’re living in an era of crisis. Enter lifestyle fascism: a bid to remake society by remaking the beleaguered male body.
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So obviously the Johnsons this article refers to are nuts. I want to be clear my take on that.
My concern is that the take in this article seems to say “taking care of yourself” (even when not done in a culture way) is a form of fascism. Its not drawing clear lines between “I want to be under 30% body fat” (the clinical definition of obesity for adult men) and people who hock health supplements/miracle cure lifestyles.
The article is critical of people worth criticizing, but it also seems inclined to say “any steps you take to be more fit are you giving in to capitalist grift and fascism”, which I staunchly disagree with.
They take the fascist hype about being a superior being very seriously. The biohacking and related activity is part of becoming that. It’s an embodiment of fascism, but, in effect, it’s the deeper commodification of the body’s systems; every cell, every hormone, every amino-acid, every calorie, all must become part of the life and death rat race competition (under capitalism). I think that the somewhat recent show, “INVINCIBLE”, presents the fitness story of that strain of fascism very clearly.
Fitness in of itself is part of the broader problem of mortal existence without meaning. Fascists give it their kind of meaning, the meaning of being super, even super-natural. You can find better meaning to bind to fitness if you try, just keep in mind that we live in a society which lives in an ecology.
