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I find it amusing that America was around 46% obese a few years ago, and if it ever declines, it won't be because they're actually healthier (excluding the rightful actions by RFK and the Trump administration against certain synthetic food additives, which brings America more in line with practically every other European-descended country), but because semaglutide and other, similar medications are just reducing that one symptom of it.

It's like the opioid epidemic. Sure, saturating society with access to buprenorphine, methadone, and naloxone reduces deaths, but they're just band-aid solutions. The weak willpower to avoid getting started on these drugs; the willpower, instead, to get started on them; the availability of these drugs; it's all still there. The underlying problem is still very much there and untouched.

Medications don't actually solve social problems. Transformative sociopolitical change is what solves social problems. Since the latter is nowhere in sight, and the discontent that leads to it still hasn't reached crisis levels, the response is simply medicalization: push the problem over to ambulances, clinics, doctors, hospitals, medicines, and nurses.

If we had a proper society, none of that medicalization would be felt necessary. We'd have a proper society with healthy, moral people who eat right and live clean: the *only* cure for both problems. Semaglutide would just be for diabetics and a few other edge cases, the opioid medications would only be for actual sufferers of chronic pain (and the recent suzetrigine could mark the beginning of moving away from opioids even for that kind of intense, chronic pain which heretofore only opioids could treat), and naloxone would have no real use at all.