The degeneracy continues in the West, especially when it comes to health and lifestyle. According to a recent survey, "some 45% in the UK agreed with the statement 'I like the taste of fast food too much to give it up', while 44% of Americans said they would be unable to give up their burgers, pizzas and chicken wings."

What's shocking here is not just the fact that almost half of the people in the US and UK are addicted to fast food, but that they are aware of their own destructive lifestyle and choose to do nothing about it. The same survey claims "people in the UK and the US were the most likely to nominate 'no self discipline' as the leading factor in obesity." No self discipline? If we're aware that we're eating ourselves to obesity and refuse to do anything about it, what does that tell us about the direction of our society as a whole?

This is the hypocrisy of our Western democracies: we live destructive lifestyles and call this freedom, attacking any nation or culture that doesn't agree with our obsession with money and power, but at the same time we justify our ill behaviour with lack of discipline and self-control, effectively saying that our system of government is a corrupt dead end and out of control. It consumes everything in its way and leaves behind war, social misery, ecological problems and dissolved cultural traditions. We're in denial of our own path to self-destruction.

But wait, it gets better: another recent survey from America revealed that "among parents with an obese, or extremely overweight, child ages 6 to 11, 43 percent said their child was 'about the right weight'." These parents are obviously in denial. This is a dangerous trend because it means that the standard of what is obesity and what is not will change, as the average weight in the Western countries will increase over time. In 30 years that fat slob next door might be a "slim" photo model. Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder?

We push the boundaries further and further to justify a development we claim to be inevitable but the facts speak for themselves: we refuse to be in control because we want to eat ourselves fat without taking any responsibility for the consequences. Don't think about criticizing our behaviour, because we've made sure that it's illegal to harm or upset an individual because of his/her physical condition. If you're fat, you have the moral right to be so!

Obesity in the West is a powerful metaphor that in one word describes the modern disease. Our only goal in life is to consume to satisfy an underconfident ego and since self-control isn't an option, we choose to stick our heads in the sand and masturbate to our holy ideals instead. There, underneath the surface of what's really going on, we're all living in peace, justice, equality and respect. Don't mind that it's all just a lie to keep us occupied until we die; we're motivated by fear and rather choose pleasant illusion than uncomfortable reality -- someone could get discriminated!

And so is an entire civilization able to consume itself until there's nothing left, plunging down into third world state while leaving a vast desert behind. Global poverty, political corruption and poisoned food await the starving masses, who cannot take proper care of themselves but insist that all other options are oppressive and evil. Welcome to modern society.