Giok...to answer your question (and I'm not sure if you were being serious or satirical in asking it):

"Whose arses are the cleanest, whose posterior health is better?"

Answer: Those whose arses are the cleanest are those who WASH the area with soap and water after defecation. That includes most Muslims, Hindus, Sihks and those other "foreign" people that you seem (I think) to be disparaging for their "hands on" approach to anal cleanliness. They also wash the involved hand quite thoroughly afterward...with soap and water. This method can be used in addition to toilet paper or entirely without toilet paper, and it works very well and results in a far cleaner "arse" and an equally clean hand as what the westerner enjoys using only toilet paper...but I guess if you're too afraid of your very own arse and your very own dung to touch it with your very own hand, then you've really got a problem with employing such methods, right? A bit squeamish? (grin) You know what I say to those with such a problem? Tough shit! Your ideas of real bodily cleanliness are a bit out of touch with reality.

As for posterior health (and leg and abdominal health) those who squat are definitely healthier than those who merely sit. Squatting assists considerably in accomplishing the objective and helps engage the whole muscular system effectively in elimination. Observe animals. They squat. Nature is a great teacher.


Some causes of western stupidity?

the Judeo-Christian religious heritage

the notion that mankind is separate from and superior to Nature

the notion that life is basically just about making money

the notion that "life is hard and then you die"

the notion that life is only about material rewards

the heritage of ruthless and aggressive power-seeking and hierarchy established by the Roman Empire and the Christian churches

the barrage of commercial marketing that deludes people and distracts them from actual life

the transformation of once informative news into manipulative entertainment and propaganda

the dividing and conquering of the public by political parties and other special interests for the purposes of gaining and consolidating power in the hands of a few

the idea of original sin and the guilt that it engenders

the lack of respect for humanity, Nature, and life in general

the idea that there is no God and no spiritual reason for anything

(You notice that there are mutually exclusive and quite contradictory motivations and philosophies involved together in misleading and corrupting world civilization at this time? Cynical materialists and fanatical religious fundamentalists are equally adept at destroying Nature and encouraging ignorance...despite the fact that they appear to be irrevocably opposed to one another!)

Destructiveness is happy to wear contradictory masks, and may believe itself even to be a saviour while it is doing so.