It’s ironic that we’re simultaneously acknowledging the downsides of plastics and promoting GLP-1 meds

It’s the hubris of a materially advanced society — we can’t fathom how engineering our materials and our bodies could be bad for us

Though the negatives of GLPs will likely be discovered sooner (spoiler alert: muscle loss)

100%

Contemporary society loves a quick fix. And then a quick fix for the problems caused by first quick fix and so on. It’s bandaids all the way down.

It’s #1 reason I can’t bring myself to recover my former techno optimism. At some point the whole disgusting mess is going to fall off and the failure to address the root cause of things will become painfully apparent.