Before We Go Badger: To Lather Or Not To Lather?
It has to be said that the old-fashioned version of wet shaving, i.e. making your own lather with a shaving brush and using a proper straight razor or a double edged razor, will probably take a little longer than hitting the button on a can of shave cream. At least it does for me. So why would I accept this? How could I accept it??
I answered this for myself by seeing that maybe it was not the best thing to continue to subject my shaving ritual to the 20th/21st century. We have become so good at making almost everything more efficient (some would say mechanical) that it has changed our very approach to things that used to take longer out of necessity, but that imbued our lives with a reality that was somehow more… enriching, or even life-affirming.
OK, OK, am I pressing my badger hair shaving brush a little too hard on my carotid artery and reducing circulation to my brain when I say this? I really don’t think so! Here’s why: When you reduce a repetitive task to only the actions that it takes to get you to the finished result, you will probably reduce the time that it takes— to accomplish the task! That’s fine if you are putting widgets together, but this is your life we’re talking about! Is it really so important that you reduce something that took you great-grandfather 10-15 minutes into a task that takes you five minutes? I’m sure you’ll find some latte line to wait in with the extra 5-10 minutes, but all else being equal, this is a small activity that can in itself constitute relaxation time, quality time.
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