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Future Insults
(n.)
A wellness zealot, righteous about their own clean-living regimen, who feels entitled to audit what everyone else puts in their body.
The table braced itself for a lecture as the sobrocrat started interrogating the waiter about seed oils.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Sober + -crat, from Greek kratos (power), the sobrocrat is one whose mandate is entirely self-issued. Prohibition enforced sobriety through the law and the pulpit; after its repeal sobriety retreated into the private sphere. Now it’s public again, and “sober” has spread beyond the bottle, with everything from sugar to screens being policed, but on health grounds rather than legal or religious ones.
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