u/Tiny-Celebration-120

America will not adopt bidets anytime soon bc that would mean for the country to adopt an ethos of introspection which would lead to mass empathy and the very collapse of the systems that make America “great”/rich. We would have to look our humanity in the eye, and many (most?) are not ready to do that. Too focused on the external/materialistic gain.

I also can’t stop thinking about how 9 out of 10 people I see could be walking around with a invisible smear of dry shit on the exterior of their ass that is slowly festering and will smell viler and viler as the hours go by until they take a shower. And even that is not a promise of cleanliness bc many men are afraid to stick their fingers in their ass and actually clean the premises.

Bidets are a salvation practice. I use my a travel bidet with warm water to start my cleaning process and induce the gastrolic reflex to get the last bit of stool out. I then finish with a regular ol’ Tushy toilet attachment bc it has much higher pressure. Toilet paper to dry at the end. This practice leaves me clean as a whistle. It is a transcendent feeling to completely empty your bowels and then clean yourself completely after. I would even say it is the foundation of a Spiritual practice. If you took the precaution to ensure that everything you ate was to result in a smooth bowel movement, and then had the self awareness to know that toilet paper is not completely cleaning you, you would be a much more delightful person to be around and would feel much more happier to yourself. And you would carry over this self awareness into how you treated others. Delicate, nuanced, and humble enough to honor the vessel we’ve been given.

Most of my friends growing up were some shade of Brown and loved Drake. He has adopted Hispanic, Arab, UK/Jamaican, and African American personas to varying degrees. I feel like this is a no-contest proposition.

Everybody in Public is buried in their phone. It's almost like being in Public is not a space anymore. It's just a means you must past through to get your end destination. Who even are the people around me? I know nothing about them at all. We share no social fabric. Just citizen 128403 and company, buried in our phones in public so we don't ask these kind of questions.

At this point, I feel like people are not real people anymore. I very rarely see public expressions of ensouledness. The only people I reliably see it from are people with their families/kids. Perhaps people are just saving their best selves for private situations. IDK. Even when you go out the bar/club. People just kind of bob along to the music. Scared. Like the all seeing Eye of Surveillance Sauron is watching their every move. How in the fck do we permit that at any moment, any old joe schmo has the power to record something in public and it be seen by BILLIONS of people? WTF is that.

I hate phone cameras now. They take no skill to use and whatever picture you capture is just going to be thrown into the pile of the infinite images that come across your phone. Phone pictures have no meaning. They are not alive. Now if you print them out, that's completely different. That is a continuation of the story of Real Humanity as far as I am concerned.

Oh, and I am a firm believer that any picture or video you take with your phone will result in an incomplete memory of the moment. It's called the Photo impairment effect. I really don't think it's an issue though if you take the picture with a camera with a lens, bc then you snapshot what you see through the lens to your brain. But if you use your phone to take it, it's such a desensitizing nasty feeling to me when I take it cuz I know it doesn't carry any real weight/meaning. Plus, your experience of the actual event in front of you is turned into a proxy event. You’re not looking at what’s happening with your eyes, you’re looking a screen representation of what your phone is looking at. Perhaps if I was a popular influencer I would feel differently. But I'm sure that even for them, it causes some kind of neurosis to fixate on something so weightless and be worried about how it will be received by thousands/millions of people. That is unnatural af.

All in all, I used to think phones were questionable...but fine for the most part. But after 2020, the algorithm has turned it up to a level I did not think was imaginable. Perhaps I am just salty bc I was planning to rebuild my social life and career trajectory right when Covid happened and now, I find myself employed, but clinging to mechanics of the social sphere of the pre Covid world, which have been replaced by whatever we have now. Whatever, I'd rather be a loner than be some algorithm driven human-computer person. I know what real fun is and refuse to pretend that any of this stuff is normal at all.

Motion to Ban Instagram and Tiktok one weekend a month. Let's see who you people really are.