Every successive sentence of this article makes me want to throw up more.

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    1 year ago

    This sickeningly glowing profile means we’re about 1-2 years out from the big scandal breaking, probably involving illegal use of funds and some weird sex stuff. I bet there’s a bunch of drugs behind the scenes too, based on how hard they’re pushing that sober shit

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    Ugh I hate the wellness industry in general but this seems to be some sort of monstrous culmination of that.

    Really hate the idealism of wellness industry. Citations Needed latest episode was about how mainstream media always presents self-help solutions for mental problems without ever addressing the systemic causes and this trend came to the spotlight with COVID. Phenomena like this one from the article seem to be along the same line: where you ask people to do yoga instead of questioning the world order. (Not saying yoga is bad.)

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    “Wellness centres” are becoming more and more popular because it’s so easy to add value (in the capitalist sense of the term) to them. My crossfit box is soon going to be offering yoga classes and also has two coaches giving massages and dietician advice. If you’re the average fitness coach, then you can learn and fill your time with related services too. Helps make ends meet in a capitalist world.

    I don’t see this venture as very different (excluding the whole cultish and LSC aspect). At least in this article, where Vice chose to focus on the wellness & fitness part. Probably people rather enjoy having a place where they can a light workout and do yoga before going to work, which raises another question of course: do they like working out at 6AM because it’s the only moment they have time before going to work? Some people actually like working out early in the morning, so good for them!

    In the pictures you can notice that many of the attendees are already quite fit, suggesting these 6am parties is not their only form of physical activity, and many of them didn’t even have the headphones on.

    Cause coming back on what an attendee said, I’ve never had molly (maybe it’s a weak drug), but I certainly have never felt like I was high on drugs after a good workout lmao. Clearly though their concept is working (if the pictures are any indication, though from the impression I get they’re mostly staged), and yet I’m still not entirely sure what they’re offering that people can’t get somewhere else.

    Of course it’s all become a commodity. The concept of physical wellness itself is a commodity, and millions are spent convincing us that you need supplements, massages and in general services that our ancestors have never had for thousands of years to be in good health.

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    “By the time [people] get off our dancefloor, they’re like, ‘holy shit’,” she says. “I feel like I’m on molly, I feel like I’m wasted. But I’m just high on life, and I’m high on the music, and I’m high on the joy in this room.” For many attendees, Daybreaker is like group therapy, she says: “I get lines of people after Daybreaker that just want to cry on my shoulder. Because they feel belonging.”

    Sounds great! What’s Nxium for them?