Fitness

To understand what is wrong with modern fitness, we need to look hard and long at primordial times and examine what we, as a species, evolved from. Science has established that the human species peaked, in terms of its genetic development, roughly 10,000 years ago in the late Paleolithic period. By that time we had inherited all the survival mechanisms needed to keep the human species alive on the planet. Unfortunately the world that we adapted to back then, that primordial, environmentally pristine planet, does not exist anymore. There is substantial evidence that our survival in the future is dependent upon reviving certain aspects of our ancient past. The key to ensuring our future as a species lies in understanding our distant past: we have lost certain elements, certain capacities and capabilities that we once possessed and possess no longer. We are unaware of this profound lose and I suggest that by recognizing these lost elements and reclaiming them, we can correct ourselves, right our course and continue onward.

Meanwhile the dominant fitness industry brainwashes us: "look to the promising future." If suddenly we came to the collective realization that our future lies in the past, would this not be a form of economic suicide for firms selling "new and improved" products? Nowadays there is a lack of humility and a lack of any sense of history. We feel we are sophisticated and forward thinking and nothing of value can be gained from studying the recent past, much less our distant, primordial past. Consequently we are gradually losing our capacity to survive without resorting to a dependence on medicinal drugs.