In praise of bad habits...

In praise of bad habits: This is the outline of a lecture by Peter Marsh to the Institute for Cultural Research in London, November 2001. "In the Western world we live in an age that is, by all objective criteria, the safest that our species has ever experienced...[yet] we have, ironically, come to fear the world around us as never before. In the absence of real risks, we invent new and often quite fanciful ones." He talks about the rise of 'coercive healthism' we find around us, and the religion of health.