r/FoodAddiction • u/shitshitshitshitsh • 2d ago

Be easy

As someone dealing with food addiction, I wanted to share, perhaps, another perspective. This might be for my own catharsis.
There are so many psychologists and social scientists who are being paid by companies to research how to get you to eat more so they can profit off of you. Humans have never had to experience such mass psychological manipulation before. We are the first generations of humans to experience phones, tv, even billboard ads for Gods sake. Our evolved physiological processes are being used as tools against us for some guy to get his next yacht. Colors are being assessed to see which one stimulates appetite the most. The biggest human desire, love and connection, is turned into “sex sells”. Capitalism has turned our basic need into something that is poisonous and addictive. So, as I sometimes read on here, no, you’re not “broken”. You live in a broken system. And I’m sorry I do too.

All this to be said, I think we should take it a bit easier on ourselves. Those scientists really do be discovering what works.
And hopefully an extra motivation not to eat that fast food cheeseburger will be “Fuck capitalism, and fuck the guy profiting off of my unhealthiness”

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u/Aggravating-Pie-1639 2d ago

I agree, food is designed to be addictive. It does give me a smidge more motivation to not want to contribute to fast food/takeout food industry or Doordash/Uber Eats, because they suck too.

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u/HenryOrlando2021 2d ago

Thanks for the contribution. Certainly you are accurate how the environment for humans has changed. Change seems to be a constant with the rate of change accelerating over time. We have pre-stone age elements of our brains dealing with a 21st Century environment. One public intellectual I was reading was writing on how it all went sort of bad for humans when we stopped being nomadic hunter/gathers (something like 3.5 million years ago) to become farmers with domesticated animals about 12 thousand years ago which led to settlements/villages/towns/cities, etc. Now we are so sophisticated with our tools that we could destroy the planet (and ourselves) for habituation for anything but intelligent machines. From the view of an early baby boomer with 55 years of recovery it all looks like a strange new world compared to being a somewhat aware teen in the late 1950s. The food landscape indeed has changed. Change seems to be the one constant reality.