The American Conservative
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Ozempic, the diabetes drug-turned-weight loss injection, has the unintended effect of curing other compulsive behaviors, such as nail biting, skin picking, and shopping.
Frida Ghitis: The impulse to overeat shares similarities with other impulsive behaviors of which shopping is the most prevalent.
She says a culture that demands a cure for even the pettier addictions is telling us something more about itself: namely, that it is suffering not from a lack of pleasure, but from an excess.
We want to believe such spiritual problems can be solved by medicine for our bodies, but perhaps we’ve got the whole thing upside down.
C. S. Lewis called applied science akin to magic in its attempt to “subdue reality to the wishes of men”.
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