{"id":41059,"date":"2026-07-11T21:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=41059"},"modified":"2026-07-11T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T19:59:13","slug":"der-hofstaat-turnt-und-das-land-schaut-zu-wie-dummheit-sich-in-bestform-bringt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/der-hofstaat-turnt-und-das-land-schaut-zu-wie-dummheit-sich-in-bestform-bringt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Court Performs Exercises While the Nation Watches Stupidity Reach Peak Condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a letter from the philosopher Seneca to his friend Lucilius in which he mocks the muscle-obsessed men of ancient Rome. It is foolish, he wrote nearly 2,000 years ago, to devote all one's strength to making the arms thick and the neck broad. Once that effort has exhausted you, nothing remains for the mind, and that is the only thing that truly matters. One only has to open that letter to understand that the American government of 2026 suffers from a very old disease for which there have been very old diagnoses.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The occasion is a 66-year-old man who oversees the nation's public health insurance programs and thought it would be a good idea to offer professional advice to his 3.3 million followers online. Mehmet Oz, once a television doctor and now the administrator responsible for the health of half a continent, stood in his garden and announced something incredibly simple. It is called a squat, he said. Everyone has heard of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n