In a brilliant article titled “Energy and Economic myths” published in 1975, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen wrote:
………..we should cure ourselves of what I have been calling "the circumdrome of the shaving machine," which is to shave oneself faster so as to have more time to work on a machine that shaves faster so as to have more time to work on a machine that shaves still faster, and so on ad infinitum.
I have been planning for a while now to graduate from Gillette’s Mach-3 (a mere 3 blade razor) to the 5-blade Fusion razor of Gillette. And I thought that the New Year was as good a time as any to gift myself this gadget. Then I remembered reading above piece by this Georgescu-Reogen.
So, my New Year resolution is to actually regress technologically. Yes, I will be buying a 2-blade model – the Sensor. Let me get off the circumdrome of the shaving machine and set an example to the materialistic, hedonistic world.
4 comments:
Raj - do away with even 2 blade...grow a beard. I wonder where Gillette will draw a line - would it be 10 blades ? Whatever happened to good old "7-O clock" and "Wilkinson" - are they still around ? The unique Indian method of breaking a blade into 2 is something about which you should blog...Balaji...
Balaji, I am regressing in a planned, phased manner. And, '7 o clock' is still around, Brand is owned by Gillette.
yaa but three blades does make it easier .. of course the barber's razor gives the best possible thingy ..
A ingle-edge safety razor is the most joyful way to shave.
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