Good posts, as always, 1.
The way these videos portray bodybuilding, as if the only virtue in it comes from brutal sacrifice and endless self-torture -- the will to destroy yourself for something "higher" -- is FUCKING DISGUSTING. Kids who watch these things are horribly misled. There is nothing noble about what you are doing. You are injecting needles in your ass and spending absurd amounts of mental and physical effort to "pick things up and put them down" so that, at the end of the day, you can live with a "perfect body" which is the envy of everyone else (or so you tell yourself). Attempting to sanctify this process by ignoring what is actually being done (lifting weights, gorging your face, injecting hormones) and speaking only of "hard work," "discipline," and "self-sacrifice" isn't noble, IT'S PATHETIC. And, just as it's said about jews, women, etc., a weightlifter by any other name is still just that -- a person who lifts weights so that they can look better than everyone else.
At least be honest with yourself, even if you are in the cult of lies, and can't bring yourself to be truthful with others. To be so ashamed of your desires that you have to sublimate them like this... is sad. Very sad.
