Why do we need to shit?

We need to shit because we can't come to terms with the crisis at our hands. The real crisis. With everything that we've got going on, we still need to eat to survive. We still need to follow an ancient set of rituals to prepare bits of plants and animals for eating. This cocktail of witchcraft, magic and science that we call cooking is still our only answer.

The sun and its radioactive spillage is still the only way we survive. Photosynthesis in plants is the dynamo of all human activity. Animals (just like us) process these plants and some of us eat them. The biochemistry of digestion in a highly inefficient way squeeze out the nutrients that our body needs from food. And because of this inefficiency we need to shit.

The elegance of culture, the smoothness of speech and rhetoric forgets this. Some people talk and I feel like snapping, "don't talk like you don't have to shit". Because we shit, it means the fact needs to reflect in everything we say, do, create. A certain level of coarseness is needed. A coarseness that reminds us that we escape a few times a day behind a closed door and excrete.

Refinement is a danger. Of being deluded with the false memory that we are space-age punks living on astro-fuel that is pure energy. That in lieu of shitting we only need to excrete neat, well-packed pellets that evaporate spontaneously. No. We are still primitive cavemen who shit. Let's get that straight.