Carys
Evans
on
Pharmaceutical
Romance,
the
Death
of
Appetite,
and
Why
Britain’s
Dating
Scene
Is
About
to
Get
Leaner
Diary
of
Carys
Evans,
Prat.uk
|
Current
affairs
with
feeling
via
Bohiney
Magazine
Tuesday
Addendum:
The
Romance
Report
I
filed
my
Mamdani
analysis
yesterday
and
today
the
biggest
story
in
Britain
is
not
geopolitics,
not
fiscal
collapse,
not
Iranian
bridges,
but
a
weight-loss
drug
that
is
quietly
dismantling
the
British
relationship
with
desire.
I
have
pivoted.
This
is
what
political
analysis
requires:
flexibility,
intellectual
range,
and
the
willingness
to
follow
the
traffic
figures.
The
Political
Economy
of
Appetite
Suppression
Retatrutide
suppresses
appetite.
In
doing
so
it
suppresses,
apparently,
the
specific
hunger
that
leads
people
toward
one
another
the
warmth-seeking,
comfort-finding,
badly-timed-text-sending
impulse
that
underpins
human
romantic
connection
and
also,
arguably,
most
of
British
social
policy.
The
Guardian’s
wellbeing
desk
has
covered
GLP-1
medications
extensively.
None
of
the
coverage
has
addressed
the
political
implications
of
a
less
hungry
electorate.
I
am
addressing
them
now.
A
hungry
electorate
wants
things.
It
votes
for
things.
It
feels
strongly
about
things
and
puts
those
feelings
on
placards
and
stands
in
the
rain
with
them.
A
pharmacologically
indifferent
electorate
is
harder
to
mobilise.
This
is
not
a
health
story.
This
is
a
participation
story.
Britain
already
struggles
to
sustain
collective
feeling
about
national
villains.
Remove
the
appetite
and
the
villain
loses
half
their
power.
Andrew
becomes
merely
inconvenient.
Piers
becomes
ambient.
The
NHS
becomes
theoretical.
Everything
becomes
fine.
Everything
is
not
fine.
Somebody
eat
something.
SOURCE:
https://bohiney.com/
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appetite
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