We'll never fix our politics...

[Joshua Katz]

...until we fix our national blood sugar.  Just wanted to venture a thought and see what others had to say:  Maybe part of the paleo-libertarian connection is that paleo eaters have balanced blood sugar, adequate vitamins and minerals, adequate supplies of real fat, particularly from animal sources (things the average person is lacking) and therefore are capable of thinking more clearly?  I expect most of us experienced, when shifting to a more paleo-esque way of eating, a "lifting of the fog."  I know that when I'm off track, I watch tv, and when I'm on track, I read philosophy tracts.  I can think more clearly, follow my ideas through, and so on.  If I were more capable of delusion, and less able to follow a logical track, I might not be a libertarian.  Perhaps our statist brothers, at least in part, suffer from this.  After all, consider things like "gun in the room" arguments, which have almost no effect on statists, even those who claim to be pacifists.  Instead, they just laugh - maybe they simply can't get certain levels of abstraction and the like because of the impact of nutrition on their brains.

 

Of course, part of the problem then is - could we ever get more people eating properly, more of a real foods industry, and so on, without fixing our politics first?

 

Anyway, any thoughs?

[Richard Nikoley]

You're not accounting for cannibals, and that's a metaphor, though only in the most physical sense.

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