Screen with you and we can get right started. Ok, great. So as always, what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, withfitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years or so that we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the kind of overarching arc of the class. Today, we turn to the 1980s. So the name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories that i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you who said it, but that idea that in another historical moment, the people who became architect
Fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not. Particularly fit nation and if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the overarching arc of the class. Today we turn to the 1980s. The name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. I will to you who said it tell you who said it. In another historical moment, the people who became architects of the Fitness Industry would have been physical education teachers is an important idea as we talk about the 1980s. I would have been a pe teacher, 1980s fitness culture in the United States. I want to talk about the united broad in the 1980s
This is i believe our third week together virtually. I hope you all are doing well. I will share my screen with you and we can get right started. So as always what we are looking at in this class today is about the rise of the american obsession with fitness, cutler fitness culture, working out, even as the United States is not a particularly fit nation. And if anything in the past 75 to 100 years we look at in this course, americans have become more and more obsessed with the idea of working out as a symbol or signal of individual virtue and morality even as the ability to do so and having a fit body has become another symbol of inequality in this country. That is the overarching arc of the class. Today we turn to the 1980s. The name of the lecture is a quote from one of the oral histories i have done for the Book Research im doing, on which this course is based. It is i would have been a pe teacher. We will get there to the end of class. I will tell you said it. In another historical
The opening ceremonies at the olympics. Intoday the olympics begin north korean and south korean athletes will be marching together in the Opening Ceremony carrying a one korea flight. This is extraordinary. We would never have imagined this a month ago as tensions reached a boiling point. Unfortunately, as is incredibly hopeful Peace Process is taking place, u. S. Vice president mike pence is there to sew bitterness. Image within the now in the coffin for so many. February 5, 2003, secretary of state general colin powell gave a speech to the are green with evidenceaq causing the was clear Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction. It was based each he would later call a blot on his career. His trump and the same thing with a rant . Generalspeak with powers former chief of staff colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congress has given final approval to a massive budget bi
Athletes will be marching together in the Opening Ceremony carrying a one korea flight. This is extraordinary. We would never have imagined this a month ago as tensions reached a boiling point. Unfortunately, as is incredibly hopeful Peace Process is taking place, u. S. Vice president mike pence is there to sew bitterness. Image within the now in the coffin for so many. February 5, 2003, secretary of state general colin powell gave a speech to the are green with evidenceaq causing the was clear Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass distraction. It was based each he would later call a blot on his career. His trump and the same thing with a rant . Generalspeak with powers former chief of staff colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congress has given final approval to a massive budget bill. Without an agreement to protect young undocumented immigrants. The deal was reached in the Ea