Are Genes Mutable

day 0.5

Are Genes Mutable
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Goals:
1. talk about interesting stuff
2. get fit

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topics:

  • workout goals
  • consistency vs progression
  • we live in our bodies regardless
  • genes are mutable (at the species level)
  • greek statues, arthur saxon, modern day fitness influencers
    • the value of eyeballs on workout consistency
  • a body to die in (see below)
risking your life and throwing away your life seem alike, but are two totally different things. people who live at the brink of death never think of throwing their lives away. only those who can take perfect care of their bodies, and then drink poison thats barely under the lethal dose at any time without hesitation can survive
Specifically, I cherished a romantic impulse towards death, yet at the same time I required a strictly classical body as its vehicle; a peculiar sense of destiny made me believe that the reason why my romantic impulse towards death remained unfulfilled in reality was the immensely simple fact that I lacked the necessary physical qualifications. A powerful, tragic frame and sculpturesque muscles were indispensable in a romantically noble death. Any confrontation between weak, flabby flesh and death seemed to me absurdly inappropriate. Longing at eighteen for an early demise, I felt myself unfitted for it. I lacked, in short, the muscles suitable for a dramatic death. And it deeply offended my romantic pride that it should be this unsuitability that had permitted me to survive the war.

-- Sun and Steel