what the hell is the deal with socks? don't we have shoes to protect our feet, i mean come on, they could put better insulation or lining crap on the inside of shoes and completely eliminate the need for socks. i think socks are something thought up by the shoe companies to make an extra buck. i mean look closely next time you buy socks, unless their those weird toe socks or the ones u see girls wearing all the time with all that stuff on em. odds are they are made by a shoe company or a branch of a shoe company under a different name.

on a slightly related topic, about 5 years ago i tried to go without shoes or socks. not all the time, i mean they wouldn't let me do it in school and i wouldnt ever go barefoot into a public bathroom (which reminds me of something else i'll get back to later)but whenever i had the chance i would go barefoot. and living in the mountains that's not easy what with all the rocks and nettles, biting snakes and insects, ticks, and all sorts of a sharp and painful things. but nevertheless in a matter of months the soles of my feet were like the soles of soft shoes, unfortunatly along with the shoe like feet came the dirty feet, like a hippie, not disgusting dirty just natural dirty. and my mom, not wanting me to become a hippie, made me wash my feet, after that my hopes of a shoeless future where crushed, my the clean antiseptic sterilized pads of my feet.

ok going back to the nasty public restrooms on the way home today the car died in amarillo and as we were waiting for the mechanic i went into the bathroom in flipflops the floor was so nasty i couldn't even bring myself to wear them in the car. so i stuck em way down in the bottom of the trunk and have no intention of getting them back.

now that i think about it if they just stopped selling shoes i don't think anything would happen. i mean it would take about a year for us to feel the real effects when our shoes begin to wear down.but after the initial shock people would just not wear shoes. i mean look at almost every primitive culture, almost none of them wear any foot coverings and they walk over much worse stuff than we do. shoes are just another example of something. originally useless that has become a symbol of civilization and western dominance. it has been so ingrained in our heads that we don't even consider the fact that we don't NEED shoes at all. wait, i take that back, we do need shoes, we have ingrained this doctrine of foot covering into our society for so long that our bodies have adapted to it. a.k.a. the pads of our feet have become thinner and more sensitive.

i'm not saying i'm just not gonna buy shoes anymore, that's ridiculous even though i notice how stupid the whole thing is, i like the majority of the world am an addict. comfort is by far the most addictive thing on earth. and with each new born westerner, we become more and more dependant on our comfort.shoes are just a smaller example of this. we are so far addicted to comfort, that only one thing, can set us straight, unfortunatly our society is so perverse and distorted in it's views on human decency and equality the salvation of us all is incomprehensible to most. in layman's terms we would have to induce some sort of climatic cultural change in the world that would most definitly result in the loss of many lives, even though it would in effect save the other 6.5 billion of us from a much worse fate, ineptitude.

  posted by Unknown @ 12:49 ap.