Death by Comfort: Abundance Year Episode 1914

Full Metal Ox Day 1849
Monday 23, March 2026
Abundance Year Episode 1914
Noxsoma Life Camp:

Good Moonday Lunatics. Welcome to a brand new week on Planet Abundance. How are we going to fight the power this week?

The advice of doctors for the majority of the twentieth century was, “relax, stay off your feet and have a smoke.” Was this “health” advice, or advice that would maintain your consumer relationship with your healthcare management provider?

The “naughties” are what some Brits call the first decade of the 21st Century. This was my rebel period. [Note, my entire life has been an era of personal rebellion and quiet protest. But that’s another story.] During the W Bush administration when the price of petrol reached $2.50 a gallon, I quoted a Richard Pryor bit and said, “Fuck this machine,” and stopped driving. Not completely. Just where ever I could walk, to take public transportation to. I did the math. More money in my pocket and less money to Big Oil, or as they came to be dubbed by some clever podcasters, the “Oiligarchs.”

The first improvement that I noticed is that I was losing weight. Fat weight. I would ask the self, “I wonder how long it would take to walk to the YMCA.” The answer was 40 minutes. At first. My best time was 34 mins. Walking. What I noticed is after walking both ways and lifting weights for about 2 hours, body fat diminished noticeably. Many members of the Y noticed and commented too.

This is around the time I noticed that “comfort was not an ally.” That there was beneficial stress and detrimental stress and that the vessel could drop weight overnight. (I was weighing the Bod before bed and at wake up, religiously for years. I still have the charts somewhere.)

This is the era that I stopped driving and started firing doctors that started every speculative diagnosis with “age-related.” I can still remember the words of the Greek doctor as I exited, stage left, from the medical industrial complex, “Time is not on our side.” This mindset was counter to everything I would “dis cover” as I slowly removed the “safety net” from the tight rope walk of life.

Do the math for yourself. Easily 20 years since W. By my own metrics, this vessel is in vastly better condition and health than at the turn of the century. With a better quadrastanding of vessel in which we “reside,” how it functions, and how to correct malfunctions. But we don’t slack.

Yesterday we returned to our Urban Expeditions. 4 to 5 mile walks to our preferred super mercados, to stock up on fuel (food), for the week. We’d been out of that practice for months due to several of those malfunctions that required attention.

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PEACE.

Death by Comfort

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Matter Trap 3
The spirituality industry and the matter trap.

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Death by Comfort. Comfort is not your Friend.

The paradox of modern American life is that our pursuit of comfort and convenience has systematically engineered the very fragility we now lament. Over the past 125 years, the US population has grown measurably weaker, softer, and less robust, not despite our technological marvels, but because of them. We have built a world so efficient, so effortless, so insulated from discomfort that the human animal, designed for movement, challenge, and adaptation, is atrophying in real time.

Consider the food first. The American diet has undergone a transformation so profound that the "vegetable" of the 21st century barely resembles its ancestor. Wheat, the staff of life, was fundamentally altered in the mid-20th century through hybridization and processing, creating a grain that spikes blood sugar faster than sucrose. Meanwhile, the rise of canned and processed foods, marketed as miracles of convenience, systematically replaced whole foods with shelf-stable edible substances engineered for profit rather than nourishment. By the 1970s, high-fructose corn syrup infiltrated everything from bread to ketchup. The result is a population simultaneously overfed and undernourished, fatter than ever, yet starving for micronutrients.

Simultaneously, we engineered movement out of daily existence. In 1979, Americans walked everywhere by necessity; today, car ownership correlates so strongly with physical inactivity that Americans who own cars log 24 fewer minutes of moderate to vigorous activity daily than those who do not. We designed communities where nothing is walkable, schools where physical education has been systematically defunded since the 1950s, and entertainment that now occurs almost entirely on screens. Children who once ran outdoors until dark now sit for hours manipulating digital toys with their thumbs. The biological consequences cascade: male testosterone levels have plummeted nearly 30 percent since the turn of the millennium, with young men today registering lower levels than their grandfathers did at age 65. Girls enter puberty five years earlier than their great-great-grandmothers, a phenomenon linked directly to obesity and endocrine-disrupting chemicals leached from our comfortable plastic-wrapped existence.

The healthcare paradox captures this decay perfectly: the United States spends nearly twice what any other nation does on medicine, 17.2 percent of GDP, yet ranks dead last among wealthy countries in life expectancy, infant mortality, and maternal survival . We live marginally longer than previous generations, but those extra years are spent in nursing homes, tethered to machines, the family fortune drained by chronic disease management rather than living. Cancer diagnoses have multiplied, driven partly by better screening but also by environmental toxins, processed diets, and sedentary lifestyles . The childhood vaccine schedule has expanded dramatically, a testament to medical dogma and the proliferation of big pharma dominance in the medical industrial complex. We have created a population that requires constant pharmaceutical intervention to survive its own lifestyle.

But the softest decay is psychosocial. The same forces that weakened our bodies have weakened our spirits. Americans are meaner, angrier, more fearful than ever, a population marinating in polarization so toxic that one in four has lost a friend over politics. We have engineered loneliness into an epidemic, retreating into algorithmic echo chambers while real-world community crumbles. The same convenience that freed us from physical labor also freed us from the inconvenience of knowing our neighbors. We are longer-lived but less alive; more comfortable but more miserable; safer from immediate threats yet dying slowly from the accumulated burden of never being challenged. The evidence suggests a terrible truth: the softer the existence, the quicker the expiration.

We are wondering if there is any way to reverse these trends. Probably not. Humans would rather die than be poor. They would rather die than be fit, or so it seems. Of course, this aligns with our world view. The comfortable they will exterminate right away, the fit, the rebellious, the critical thinkers, will take a little longer. For certain, we will go down swinging!

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