Pot and Doughnuts

GM 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health 'sletter that insures you against all the demonic forces that may attack you today. Peace b w u. OK, let's go. 

🍩 McDonald's doing doughnuts now.  In a devilish decision that would make Ray Kroc proud, McDonald's will be piloting Krispy Kreme doughnuts in 9 locations. Let's see how she sells, they think. Just in time for a rip-your-heart-out recession! Fun background: when the McDonald's brothers started the fast food chain in 1955, in typical California fashion, they wanted to use locally sourced ingredients. Imagine that. This was the case until 1961 when Ray Kroc got his grimy paws on the franchise and changed the industry (read: industries) and human health forever. Kroc basically said, "you can locally source my balls" and instead built systems/supply chains for the cheapest possible food the world had seen. Obesity was 13% in 1961; today it's 40% and expanding.  🍎 Andrew's Take. Look, every once in a while, I will delete a doughnut and my heels will lift off the floor for a moment of bliss. I get it. The doughnut arguably is both the tastiest food and the least healthy food on the planet (uber-enriched flour, seed oil, and sugar... hyperpalatable foods like this are, by nature, not supposed to exist). It's as if the refrigerator-bodied mad scientist snatched God's crown for a second and quickly invented something unprecedented, something remarkably ungodly. A nutritional serpent. My prediction is that people will buy the damn doughnuts, and other things just like it, in mammoth quantities until we reach a breaking point (around 2040), at which an Awakening will take place and the "fringe health weirdos" of the 2020s will be retroactively named prophets.

⛽ Gas station weed.  In the next year, you will be able to purchase marijuana at Circle K gas stations. Pot is really, really going mainstream. The "chill" proponents scream yay. The stuffy opponents say nay. Does any of this matter? What happened to buying sticky from some 30 year still driving his mom's SUV?  🍎 Andrew's Take. My read is that this ain't good. To steal a line from culture critic Anna Khachiyan, "it seems all modern sensibilities and lifestyles are about anxiety management." To be fair, I'm not 21 anymore so perhaps I don't know what "anxiety" is like when TikTok is running train on my brain for two hours a day, but anxiety is nothing new... some would even call it "life". Our ancient ancestors used chemicals like THC spiritually, not recreationally. And if you think their lives were free of anxiety, then: lmao. The current tendency of liberal society (at least in the West) to fix any emotional wilting with chemicals (pills, vapes, and the rest) is worrisome to say the least. Weed is no exception. The hippies got a lot of shit wrong! Don't take my word for it though. Go get high and then try to do normal things, like write an email, participate in zoom calls, feel your feelings, make eye contact with a stranger, hell maybe even talk to them! Some can get by, but most would fail miserably at these mundane tasks. By and large, making pot this accessible leads to a cultural degradation, not the transcendence it's advertised as. McConaughey's stoner character in Dazed & Confused was two things. He was funny as hell. And he was pathetic.

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