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[Anonymous No.14586631]

Man was made to do his daily work with his muscles; but see him now, like a fly on flypaper, seated for eight hours, motionless at a desk. Fifteen minutes of exercise cannot make up for eight hours of absence. The human being was made to breathe the good air of nature, but what he breathes is an obscure compound of acids and coal tars. He was created for a living environment, but he dwells in a lunar world of stone, cement, asphalt, glass, cast iron, and steel. The trees wilt and blanch among sterile and blind stone facades. Cats and dogs disappear little by little from the city, going the way of the horse. Only rats and men remain to populate a dead world. Man was created to have room to move about in, to gaze into far distances, to live in rooms which, even when they were tiny, opened out on fields. See him now, enclosed by the rules and architectural necessities imposed by overpopulation in a twelve-by-twelve closet opening out on an anonymous world of city streets.

[Anonymous No.14586651]

>>14586631
good thing i exercise for forty five minutes, then. wouldn't want to be a blind and boggled ratman stuck in a city, now would i?

[Anonymous No.14586654]

>>14586631
It will only get worse. We must synthesize the advancement of technology with the preservation of autonomous, natural lifestyles. Eugenics and population control is a good start.

[<TRANSCENDENTAL> !xruKyDyaK2 No.14586656]

>>14586631
The optimal level of exercise is 200 minutes a week. All-cause mortality, intelligence, happiness are all the highest there. Your quote is nonsense lit-babble.

[Anonymous No.14586669]

>>14586656
shut the fuck up tripfaggot

[Anonymous No.14586736]

baste kierkegaard influencee

[Anonymous No.14586739]

>>14586654
>We must synthesize the advancement of technology with the preservation of autonomous, natural lifestyles
>synthesize technology with preservation of autonomous, natural lifestyles
lol

[Anonymous No.14586790]

>>14586739
It’s possible to have advanced technology while also not using it in every possible way. Imagine a collection of agrarian villages across the continent, all living simply, autonomous lives, but with weather modification and genetically modified crops and embryos and life-saving medicine. We don’t have to use smartphones or jet packs or space ships. We can still know about these things, while choosing not to use them. It may be the case that only a handful of humans would know about and oversee technological capability, and if they were intelligent and lacking greed, then they would know to preserve a natural lifestyle for all the villages by only providing the necessary technology.

We can’t simply destroy technology, and we can’t keep advancing blindly. The future is a synthesis between technology and nature. We don’t even need to be dependent on technology. Through genetic modification, we could make ourselves independent of this technology in a fe generations. Obviously this plan is unlikely due to human behavior, but that’s why I said that we must begin with eugenics and population control.

[Anonymous No.14586845]

The status quo ain't changing.

All I've heard in my life is how "we need to do that" or "we need to do this" while "WE" pretty much do none of those.

We're locked in. Just fucking accept it already you stupid fucks and stop thinking that you're some kind of visionary.

[Anonymous No.14587197]

>>14586656
>https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/17/heart-bolivian-hunter-gatherers-atherosclerosis/

>To many, the most surprising thing is not that the Tsimane have healthy coronaries — after all, on average, they spend over eight hours on a single hunt, crossing some 11 miles of thick-vined forest to shoot monkey, tapir, bird, and capybara — but that they survive into their 80s at all.

For the healthiest arteries, maybe 200 minutes isn't enough.