AFFLUENZA: FULL OF CRAP FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP AND FEELING SCREWED UP

Source: Affluenza: The all-consuming epidemic.

By Gundhramns Hammer & Salvatore Scimino
October 12, 2014
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The stars are always shining within ourselves. 

It is just that we refuse to see them.

The authors.

Some starving people would give their souls up just to have a dish full of cooked rice and beans. Sadly, there are too many people suffering from hunger in this mismanaged world.

Others, the ones that are drowning in possesions and have too much food, most of which is thrown away or wasted, would not give a fuck about such plain yet delicious dish unless they were broke.

The already over-stuffed people will only take more crap in when they are feeling depressed, insignificant or lacking any sense to go on with their lives. 

As far as food is concerned, for those that are swimming in abundance, anything edible that is appealing to the limbic system of their brains, especially a fancy hamburger that would stimulate their taste buds with a shot of MSG (monosodium glutamate) in it, will find its way to their bellies.

The funny thing about mankind is that as soon as their physical needs are met and they feel secure economically, they usually find themselves falling into a dark pit inside their brains.

Thus, emotional emptiness settles in.

Man is a delicate thing, after all. He ain´t god. 

What do we have now? 

The folks at the bottom, they will be in constant fear and danger of being eaten and taking and shit. 

Those in the middle and its shades, they are eaten too and whenever they can, they will fill their pit with overspending and overconsuming. 

It is said that in the United States, for example, "families are not just spending more of what they earn, they are also spending what they have not earned” (Warren, 2003).

The ones on top, the oligarchs, they will find ingenious ways to dissimulate their emotional holes and attempt to fill up this dark cavern with a humungous chain of ambitions, greed and killing-offs to get all of the power that money can buy as long as they live. A life of fucking up the Biosphere. 

These are in a race against time which will eventually catch up with them and screw them up. Like everyone else, they are eaten too.

All is all, the whole fucking thing is a chupacabra feast.

Why feeling empty?

There may be many reasons.

For those having plenty to eat and waste, what you eat is one of them.

In a globalised world where rich and poor now munch on processed and GMOs foods, what do you expect with a brain constantly soaked and marinated in a pool of crap from all the artificial foods people that are into this business of overconsumption eat from day one?

It is now known that if you treat badly your intestinal microbiota, overtaxing and overcharging it with all kinds of crap, these bugs that control you, will protest and give you hell.

In other words, your crappy food overconsumption will mess up your gut microbiota which is neatly tuned and hooked to your immune system which in turn will be screwed up and as a result,  via the gut-brain axis (Fig. 1), you will be plunged in a world of "black moods" (Smythies & Smythies, 2014) inside your head. 

Figure 1. The microbiota-gut-brain axis. Disorders of the intestinal microbiota can impact on this axis to alter behavioural responses. For further information, go to the reference section. Source: Cryan & O´Mahoney (2011).

So, now you are full of crap from the bottom (belly and gut) to the top (head).

What will happen next?

If you are one of those who happen to have more than what you need and are spending more and more and enjoying less and less, dwelling in a "developed" nation (ecologically poisoned place), in such a state plus being constantly bombarded by the elite´s media to spend and consume more and more, you are most likely to fall prey to the new contagious disease: The afluenza. 

If so, you have now become fodder.

And you might be already suffering from affluenza too, without your realising it.

Graaf et al. (2005) define Affluenza as "a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more."

In a nutshell, despite your overabundance, overspending and overconsumption, eating and wasting the future generations´ biospheric cake, screwing up and down, you are still feeling fucked up. Feeling like crap.

So, whether you are suffering from affluenza or not, the following documentary (Video 1) will give you an idea what this is all about or where you are about.

Video 1. Affluenza: The all-consuming epidemic.

Almost 5.000 million years of evolution on Earth since the beginning to get to humans, the biggest predators and shitters on the planet, ¿just for this?

Fuck!!

Folks, the stars are always shining within ourselves. It is just that we refuse to see them.

We have found them. Have you?

See you later alligators!

References

Cryan J.F. & O´Mahoney S.M. (2011). The Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis: From the Bowel to Behavior. Neurogastroenterol. Motil., 23: 187-192.

Graaf J. de, Wann D., Naylor T.H. & Horsey D. (2005). Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic. Second Edition. Berrett-Kholehler Publihser, Oakland, CA, USA. 288 p.

Smythies L.E. & Smythies J.R. (2014). Microbiota, the Immune System, Black Moods and the Brain - Melancholia Updated. Frontiers Human Neurosci., 8 (720): 1-4.

Warren E. (2003). The Over-Consumption Myth and other Tales of Economics, Law and Morality. Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. 23 p.