>Agree with this. Because something is culturally constructed, or perhaps a
>feature of class society, does not necessarily mean we want to, or can, give
>it up. The whole concept of having privacy when you take a shit, and of
>distancing shit from our everyday lives through toilets, etc, for example,
>has been created, refined and shaped by bourgeois notions of individualism
>(as noted in The History of Shit, by some French theoryhead whose name
>escapes me), but I think most of us are happy with it, or at the very least
>regard it neutrally.
>
Offhand, I'd say that the "culturally constructed" reason we keep shit
out of our lives has more to do with its terrible smell, and its
presence in our drinking water tends to spread cholera like a
motherfucker. If that's a bourgeois notion of individualism, I'm all for it.