Stop Touching Your Poop-Shoot
The history of mankind is riddled with examples of achievement and innovation through necessity. Our ability to recognize a problem and, through innovation and invention, we improve the condition of our species. Whether in war or peacetime, we explore, colonize, and cultivate; which in turn improves our society, our intellect, and our knowledge. Within the last decade our primary focus has been to improve our condition through medicine and cleanliness. We have focused on curing the incurrable through advancements in medicine and medical treatments in order to prolong the lives of millions. Our focus on cleanliness decreases the likelyhood of contracting the deaseases that we have not yet been able to cure through medical advancement. We spray anti-biotics on nearly everything we touch, inhale, or digest. We invented and improved sanitary systems that remove human excrement and waste from populated areas. We insolate and, in some cases, isolate ourselves from situations that could introduce viruses and bacteria into our bodies.
Yet through all this advancement, every living human on the planet goes through a near daily ritual that digresses most of these advancements and negates the rest. bowel movements are, as of yet, an unavoidable part of living. Our body must and does expel the unusable portions of our digested foods. After which, the majority of humankind under takes a ritual that is conceivably the most barbaric practice still accepted in our culture. We wrap a clean, yet thin and cheap, piece of paper around our hands and attempt to cleanse our poop-shoots.
Potty training my son was a rather simple undertaking. Convincing him that placing his bodily excrament into a bowl of flushable water was an evoluationary step beyond the diaper method. However, convincing him of the advantages of placing his hand in an orfice that has just ejected human excratement has been less than sucessful. And why shouldn’t it? He hasn’t been conditioned that this is as good as it gets. Children have very little conditioning and always hope and imageine that things are often better then they turn out to be. Their expectations are higher because they have not be subjected to the repetition of defeat and disappointment that life will soon offer in adulthood.
So, in conclusion, I ask, are we to continue the barbaric practice of negating all of human achievement by touching our poop-shoots unnecessarily? Or, can humans rise above our current condition and continue the advancements that have marked our whimsical and improbable rise in intellect and improvement of culture? I for one believe that one day we will overcome this affliction and, yet again, revolutionize our culture, or society, and our species.
