write an open letter to youth of the nation on the power of fitness for class ninth for project ..
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Modern fitness is biopolitics par excellence. By taking life under its care, fitness strives for the maximization of the vital forces. It aims at the population and seeks to make it healthier, stronger, and more productive, but it operates through the individual body, by addressing and shaping it. Yet fitness does not exert power by subjecting these bodies to a disciplinary regime, but by fostering personal responsibility, by promoting self-enhancement, by providing an infinite number of possibilities, and by shaping the ability to pursue success and happiness. The aim of fitness is strong, powerful, self-reliant bodies, not docile ones.
From the very beginning, fitness was what Judith Butler has called a “regulatory ideal.” Claiming and creating difference between more and less fit bodies and individuals is inherent to fitness. Fitness is (and here I lean on Michel Foucault’s lectures on biopolitics) “a way of establishing a biological type caesura within a population.” However, it is most important to note that Theodore Roosevelt, in his “strenuous life”-speech, established this caesura not only between those who were living a strenuous life and those who were not, but he did so also along the lines of race and gender. Roosevelt claimed that only white Anglo-Saxon men were endowed with the ability to achieve true fitness, move the American nation forward, and were thus entitled to full citizenship. Citizenship here means more than having a certain passport, and it also means more than the right to vote. It means being granted recognition as a productive member of society. In liberal societies, fitness developed into the ultimate pre-condition for citizenship recognition, with fitness being the privileged domain of white men.
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