Incentive to keep running on the treadmill at the gym this afternoon was a programme about massively fat Americans on ITV presented by Jeremy Kyle, perhaps the most evil human being who has ever lived. History will be his judge, but I suspect when Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler are forgotten, Jeremy Kyle's false-concerned, patronising, self-aggrandising face will be remembered. I may be wrong about this.
But I don't think so.
I pounded away on the running machine watching people who were so obese that they were unable to walk, whose stomachs were the size of small countries and who had necks that were so fat that they genuinely found it difficult to breathe.
It put my own struggles with my weight into some perspective and made me keen to keep on running. How do you let yourself go that far? Well obviously they were mainly very emotionally damaged people, but you'd still think they might have been able to stop shovelling the food into their mouths when their own neck was so big that it stopped them breathing, when one of the main reasons it is there is to assist the breathing process.
How will our culture be judged in the future (if people ever forgive us for Jeremy Kyle)? It's a trite and obvious thing to say, but it makes it none the less true - how can we have a world where so many people have so little and are starving to death, whilst others are eating so much that they are actually killing themselves? Though these unfortunate people are something of an extreme, the rest of us are still guilty of this overwhelming greed. Luckily we are also destroying the world so all those unfortunate people who have nothing to eat will soon have nowhere to live either, which will at least make them hanker for the days when they were just hungry.
As long as we keep the Third World starving then they won't be able to rise up and beat the shit out of us. Even though we will soon all be bed-ridden blobs unable to breathe whilst we are asleep. But this way all the humans should be dead one way or another pretty soon and the world has some chance to recover. As long as Jeremy Kyle dies too then the loss of humanity will not be in vain.
My gig in Aldershot tonight was a marked improvement on
the last time I was here. It might have been the performance of the tour so far. Really enjoyed it. Hope you did too, if you were one of the Aldershotians who made it there.
