quantum obesity

In a recent search, "quantum and obesity" brought up over 600,000 results! I was surprised to learn that such an association even existed, so I started reading. When bringing the whole subject of quantum into the obesiverse, I do so with the knowledge that a vast majority of individuals will not have the intellect or desire to study this very complex mathematical based theory, even though it truly is such an important part of developing an eventual "TOE".

When doing some casual reading, I found that this article about one tiny core principal of quantum physics provides a very illuminating (and relatively simplistic) example of what quantum physics even is and how it actually is relevant in our world and in our reality governed by one particular set of natural laws of physics.

This writer believes that our race will be closer to critical (max) tech when we begin to resolve the mysteries of physics and the common thread that ties just the two major categories of physics and quantum together. It's fascinating to know what an age of technological advance we merely exist in when compared to the distant past, but it's almost disappointing to realize that despite these advances, we are still only a fraction of the way towards truly being a "superior intelligence" as a race ourselves! Just imagine the way in which we know so much to invent so many things, and at the same time, we are smart enough to create a mathematical equation which shows us things that as observers of our reality we can never really know.

This is why my perspective on the area of obesity is really an observation of a very strange human behavior phenomenon that has a direct parallel to every major problem with human society in general. Having an interest in such vast sciences has allowed me to have a slightly clearer view of "the big picture". Those who are obese, or struggling with a "solution" to obesity are stuck in the position of the observer. Researchers watching results of some arbitrary experiment or mining through data for research are doing so while stuck in the mode of thinking that obesity is a singular problem in itself instead of being a side effect of a larger societal problem. Those who are obese are slowly programmed to believe that obesity is the only problem they face in their lives and by overcoming that, everything else will fall into place.

"Obesity man" is a metaphor for our ignorance and complete blindness to the fact that somewhere there is a much more simplistic root cause of the "obesity epidemic" that can't be fixed because it would interfere in our society's status quo. This creates a kind of paradox where some people will claim to have an agenda to help overcome this issue as long as you have the cash, but is really being used as a scapegoat for what amounts to a modern day witch hunt. Maybe obesity is even one of MANY things being used to create a moral panic in an effort to lessen the blow of painful and necessary adjustments to the status quo.

Whatever the motivation for what is going on now, my unique perspective simply as an individual who had what some considered an "unusual" or even paradoxical physical preference created an opinion that would otherwise not even exist if I, the "observer" never existed.

I am able to recognize this particular issue (obesity freak out) and place it in the bigger puzzle in a modern sense of collective "wtf" when it comes to the "powers that be", and the status quo and the state of the human condition as "we" know it.

Because of my perspective, I am made to feel as if the only significance to obesity is in the fact that it is so insignificant in the big picture, yet it seems to permeate our very existence in such a way that we need to confront it, possibly before many other much more pressing, humanity protecting interests. It is ironic that obesity does, in fact, seem to calculate into our very mortality, but because it's affects accumulate over time, it is in no way a threat to our very existence in the way that disease, hunger, famine, and tyranny are.

There seem to exist so many paradoxes in obesity itself that it's impossible at our current level of technology to really figure out why our race as a whole would lean towards obesity. The simple calculation is that eating more and doing less is the "cause" to obesity, but strangely enough, our race as a whole continues to act upon instinct and feed themselves into obesity. The obesity crisis is not about one individual getting fat, but our entire population getting fat.

There is no argument about what is going on though. Science knows that as the divide between rich and poor increase, so does the divide between access to healthy food or empty calories. In a way, obesity may be a societal punishment. Any society that is morally and ethically corrupt to the point where a certain definable degree of class division exists opens itself up to the physical manifestations of said class division.

I particularly enjoy the example of any religious entity that chooses to focus it's resources on attacking other non-religious individual's right to information or media (porn) instead of "feeding the hungry" or "empowering the poor with education". That religious entity, in my opinion, is morally corrupt. There is no money to be made from feeding the poor or sending a poor person through school, but there is social recognition and the potential to gain more "contributors" if a spectacle is made of attacking other people's individual liberties.

I am stuck in the position of observer because I happen to be an individual who's rights are being attacked by an entity that claims to be working "for the greater good". In my particular experience, porn is inexplicably linked to religion now because I was actually "blackmailed into baptism" during my adolescent years. No matter what any other individual's argument in favor of religion, my own personal experience has revealed hypocrisy and the potential for those in a position of religious power to abuse said power. I am fortunate that as a baptist youth (involuntary) I was ONLY exposed to blackmail for the first time, and not exposed to any physical activity for the first time. I still learned the same lesson about how even religious individuals have the potential to practice the "dark arts" in an effort to do the most good or fulfill their private, less than holy agenda. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". In my present personal experience, every time someone approaches me and announces their religious orientation, the next step is asking me for money! Case in point, coming out of Wal-Mart and hearing "Jesus loves you, can I have a dollar?" What used to be the power of the Spanish Inquisition is now a sad, weak, pathetic plea for charity.

In the article about the role of the observer, there is a quote that I really find fascinating.

"The logical extension of this possibility leads to the further conclusion that all things, including the illusion of choice, are completely deterministic. "Thinking" and all of the experiential aspects of the human condition can be explained only as artificial intelligence that gives rise to awareness by an unknown mechanism that is related in some manner to complexity. That is, it must be possible to sculpt a sand figure in such a way that the arrangement of the grains of sand themselves give rise to self-awareness and the illusion of choice on the part of the sculpture."

In a way, this statement about one principal of quantum physics actually carries with it a central theme of the bible itself, predestination! If we were to go forth and multiply in an effort to extrapolate data only obtainable through the human experience and consciousness, then we must begin to accept the very fact that there are just things we don't know yet but will know in the future.

How does this all relate to obesity? In the way that humans will procrastinate doing something really important in favor of doing little things first, our entire race is now caught in the web of fixing obesity instead of making the very realization that prioritizing obesity over hunger and poverty are fundamentally counter-productive to the progression of the human race itself. A modern day witch hunt with the purpose of taking attention away from genocide, hunger, famine, disease, intolerance, and totalitarianism. If more people understood quantum and the very mechanics behind our vast and truly magical universe, the small minded thinking behind size discrimination and all discrimination for that matter would start to actually dissipate. If more people could see the big picture, and be given more of a purpose than what's laid out in one single book, maybe we as a race could really begin to move forward in our physical and mental evolution!

What an irony that by looking at faults with larger systems already in place, fixing obesity could end up being a side effect of fixing what's really wrong with society as a whole.

Until more people can think bigger, we will all suffer, and some individuals will suffer more than others, and some people will be made to feel guilty that they are part of a symptom in a greater problem with humanity itself. Wouldn't it be awesome and incredible if quantum finally afforded the human race with ways to interact with the receptors in our brain that tell us to eat rather than cutting out the organ in the body responsible for processing what we eat? Maybe that's why I see the great tragedy of weight loss surgery as a "shrink'em or kill'em" strategy.

By saying that obesity should not exist, you are indirectly saying that obese individuals should not exist. When enough people agree with this philosophy, the hate mail on a you-tube video of a fat person should always assume the ending quote "because you should not exist". Because I know for sure that such hate mail is more common place than any type of intelligent dialogue, I am forced to assume that anti-obesity hatred is already at the point in my observed reality where obese people are denied the virtual "right to exist", which is the most fundamental human right that I know of personally, and one that is in constant danger as long as there is overwhelming evidence of such public sentiment.

Every few years someone well known drops dead from some kind of surgery, so every few years a new procedure is invented that claims to be "less dangerous". For those unable to see the big picture and realize that the future even exists, they will be comforted by how this surgery is "better than the last" even though they fail to realize that years into the future, weight loss surgery will probably be looked upon as yet another medical tragedy where countless people were hurt by something later proved not to really work at all or have much more serious consequences than was known at the time.

Quantum has everything to do with obesity, as it has to do with "everything", as obesity seems to have something to do with everything as well. The mere existence of the venus of willendorf statues suggest that obesity has been with us for well over 40,000 years, I can't imagine how we can't cure a common cold but we can over-ride evolution and attempt to bypass what could be a serious sign of "impending doom". If more people are suddenly becoming obese, then how outrageous would it be to imagine that like animals, we have a sub-conscious ability to predict some kind of cataclysm and we are physically preparing for it by becoming fat! If that's even a possibility, then it is the responsibility of those in power to recognize obesity as a symptom and address the mass concern of the people instead of trying to tell people not to eat too much and get off their asses.