Re: [pf] How can we bring America's conformity epidemic to a screeching

At 17:56 9/02/00 -0800, Molly wrote:
> ... we, and our things, are too clean! .. personal showering habits.
> ... it uses so much water and energy! Seems crazy ... not
>only in cleaning ourselves and our clothes and our other possessions.
> ...
>We don't wash our clothes until they are fairly dirty ...
> I usually wear a pair of jeans all week and often the same
>turtleneck shirt all week as well, depending on my level of activity
>(and therefore sweat). 

**  Same here, and for all of us except our 22yo daughter, who's just left
for a car tour around New Zealand with her boyfrind who came from
Switzerland for a 4-week visit.


>We have not noticed that they wear out any sooner if cleaned less 
>(perhaps the contrary).
>
**  I've used little washing-machine agitation for years now, noting the
far less lint produced, but find that towards the end of their life cotton
things tend to go into holes where they've been sweated-into. Perhaps this
business of being spotless ("cleanliness is next to godliness", as my
great-aunt used to say) is one more example where one needs to "strike a
balance", "moderation in all things", life is a grey area and going to
either end of a range is actually wrong. See Keith Rankin's "Joerg Haider"
piece; it contains: "Demonisation serves as a simple-minded substitute for
analysis and vision".

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/Pg1-AD11.html
 or better: http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/
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