cumaeansibyl:

cumaeansibyl:

cumaeansibyl:

this is probably old news but it’s occurred to me that all the natural medicines intended to cleanse the body of unspecified “toxins” are promising to relieve symptoms of living under capitalism

you’re tired all the time, your body aches, your mind feels foggy, you’re anxious and depressed – surely this means you need to “detox” and not that you’re overworked and underpaid in a system designed to exhaust you

ohhh, not to mention how much emphasis they place on dietary causes – so you’re eating Bad foods and it’s your fault you feel the way you do

the toxin metaphor is really tempting at times. perhaps you squeeze an aching muscle and the pain spurts through your body, it feels like draining a cyst. what’s this poison that’s soaked into the fibers? an oily sludge, a sizzling acid? the reeking liquor that drips from a bag of rotting potatoes? something’s polluted you, and maybe it’s industrial runoff or chemtrails, or fluoride, or that time three months ago you were so tired you couldn’t remember the names of food, so you went to McDonald’s and ordered the three yellowest things off the board.

but maybe it’s just the sort of things your own body produces when you’re tired and afraid all the time, and maybe you can blame capitalism for some of that but some of it comes down to the fear that came from nowhere to live in your sternum and can’t be cleared out by the subtlest herbs