There of course is a second kind of dirt which is healthy: It is not "clean" like mud or soil. It is rather "real dirt" that makes you healthy because your body has got to fight against it and when doing so it becomes stronger. This somehow remindes me of antique Rome, where the people was meant to watch cruel gladiator fights to stop "sissification" which would lead to the downfall of the empire.
Saturday, 22 December 2007
Thursday, 20 December 2007
Bernadette Lahengst
This musicion LaHengst has something very wise to say: "Ich will nicht mehr entscheiden müssen zwischen Scheiße und Scheiße" (I don't want to decide between shit and shit anymore). Yes exactly I've got to decide on my topic and I find it hard!
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Dirt is Healthy
"Dreck ist gesund" (Dirt is healthy). One can read or hear about this insight regularly, both in scientific and every day life context. Dirt is framed healthy because we live in a world that is too clean; so clean that it seems unnatural; so clean, that we get ill of its cleanliness. I wonder which kind of dirt is the clean type: A quick glimpse into google gives me a preliminary answer: it is soil, mud or clay that is healthy (see also deep face cleansing). E.g. 'some medical experts say' eating mud or clay 'may be beneficial, especially for pregnant women'.
Anyway, the dirt-is-healthy insight obviously stems from a world that perceives (or experiences?) itself as very clean, assumingly by comparing itself to others or the good old past. Travelling to “dirty countries” might therefore serve an affirmation of the travellers cleanliness (and all the different meanings that come with it e.g. civilization, distinction, education,…).
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