Muscle for Life

I realize this is a curious recommendation based on what I normally suggest, but I’m including it in the series because I think it’s an important and timely read. To understand why, consider the following from a speech the author gave in 1961: “There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.” And then look at the world around you. Here in the West, people . . . -Watch an average of 38 hours of video content per week. -Spend an average of 1.5 hours on social media per day. -Play an average of 6.4 hours of video games per week. -Spend on average over 90