Paul and I have discovered that Velcro is evil. Not directly evil in itself, but it represents all that is wrong with our society. Allow me to explain.
On our walk we were talking about how nice it would be if we could detach ourselves from situations that were damaging or stressful. We has both experienced crappy days - people yelling at us, putting on pressure to suit themselves, being unreasonable, etc.
Paul said that he had decided to "detach" himself from his worries of the day. I admired that.
That got us to thinking about detachment in general and how in our society it's almost impossible to detach because everything is tied to us, occasionally stopping us from branching out and doing what we feel we'd like to do (responsibilities, the pressures of life, finances, work).
That led us to develop a general feeling of disdain towards attachment - after all we were, for that brief half an hour, detached from our worries, walking - free!
Therefore, as Velcro so easily attaches things to us, things to other things, us to other parts of us we decided that it was evil and a conspiracy to make us more attached.
Velcro is evil as it raised the general level of attachment in the world.
So there.
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