Seldom do we regard the human form as specifically provocative outside of what varying degrees of sensually erotic presentation it may assume, and while very often this sort of provocation is accomplished by superficial embellishment it nevertheless must ultimately contend with the realities of flesh which beset it on all sides, to no exclusion of its own beholding. Behavioral and physical endowment by accident of material happenstance (social, genetic, etc.) is the usual thoroughfare for those few thusly privileged, and with considerably abysmal contrast to the greater mass of persons less favorably endowed. Yet is there at least one universally attainable tendency of form (or nearly so, barring but a handful of material maladies) and one undeniably provocative even well beyond what erotic appeal it may, or indeed may not bear forth: a tendency best characterized by the process of muscular development, or hypertrophy.

… or of ‘harm’ as an oppositional category

The practice of writing is tedious and clumsy. It is the ill expenditure of rudiment appendages and cognitive faculties which have been honed over eons of sex and death to better service the gut and loins of a rather peculiar beast of prey. To what end do we leverage such inheritance by this ill manner of employment if not merely in service to its associated carnal appetites? if even in jaundiced service of such appetites? It is a mistake here to presume even in so morbid an activity as writing that we transcend such; just as it would be a mistake to attribute any human proclivity as intrinsically other than desirous. Instead might we more appropriately suppose it an abstraction of such appetites, confounding the pursuit of satiation as well as the very experience of desire, even to the point of total dissociation of libidinal wont.

The humble pull-up is an unparalleled mainstay of physical prowess across many domains of social life. It is an exercise by which standards of strength are gauged and developed wherever this capacity (to generate force against resistance) be regarded as instrumental to the person as a durably functional facet of some social body or enterprise. So too might it stand to reason that in any greater society which rightly regards enduring development of bodily capacity and ability as a staple of personal and social well-being would we find the pull-up likewise in critical attendance. Inherently an intensive exercise for any who would treat it so does the movement oppose nearly all of the body’s weight along the singularly most immense kinetic chain and corresponding recruitment of musculature possible across the elbow and shoulder joints, a chain alarmingly under-utilized within circumstances of modern living, even in spite of such proved and readily stimulated capacity, capacity which translates to safe and able performance whatever tasks might sporadically befall any portion of its required musculature under said circumstances.

『 ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴘᴇᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴᴀʀʏ ᴍᴏᴅᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴍᴀɴɴᴇʀ ᴏꜰ ɪᴛꜱ ʀᴀᴘɪᴅ ᴅᴇᴘʟᴏʏᴍᴇɴᴛ. 』

『 𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫-𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭. 』

『 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠. 』

:: a critique of the permanent web ::

… over symptomatic farce