Society vs I
Reading this post is making me think quite a bit about cultural/social influence. I’m starting to think that individuals need the sense of responsibility, and an understanding of what works (i.e. via training and education), but there’s a strong social factor which needs challenging too.
I guess we’re not the sum of our parts as a big group, because the group dynamics influence us too. Just like peer pressure and bullying in kids can so strongly influence individuals and be partly the cause of a nice kid ending up hurting another; I think a huge social pressure to become fatter (and I don’t know how else to put it) is also influencing individuals who would like to be fitter, and would generally make decisions which in a different culture would keep them slim.
So things which work on a large group of people need changing if they’re causing damage (i.e. the population is changing into one in which it’s acceptable to live an unhealthy lifestyle), and individuals need empowering with understanding of what to do to change their own lives, and a sense of responsibility for their state of being.
