Listen, if we’re talking toilet seats, I prefer sanitized.
Let’s not get it twisted.
But in the US, we often inherently value new over old, as if the recent, plastic, disposable option is better.
This is a superficial view.
So what do we gain through sanitized things? And to be clear, I don’t mean spraying items down with disinfectant…
I mean, a view and experience of the world that prefers a predictable or what it perceives as ‘safety’ over all else.
Food I know and have eaten, places I have been and won’t be surprised by, people that don’t keep me honest despite being inner circle, social groups I haven’t walked in or know my spot in the pecking order, perspectives I haven’t encountered, or even more so, what life trajectory is open to me based on all of the above.
Sanitized is safe.
It is also small, short, timed, simple, nearsighted, and finite.
If growth is on the other side of all of that, then ‘sanitized’ has a predictable result too…
Lack of growth. Stagnancy. Nothing new.
A bowling ball careening between bumpers in gutters unused.
But I know we can all do better than that……………………… can’t we?