[lbo-talk] cleansing

[Philip Pilkington]

> That might be interesting, if true, but I'm not sure it is. Americans have
> been obsessed with colonic health for at least a couple of decades. Sometime
> in the 1980s, I remember standing dumbstruck in a health food store on the
> Upper West Side of Manhattan in an aisle full of colon cleansing
> preparations, many illustrated with an image of the colon itself. I first
> heard of the high colonic some 25 years ago. The person who first told me
> about it said that after one, colors appeared brighter.
>
> Doug
>
> _
>

Eh...

(a) The Freudian thesis is at least a century old

and

(b) It assumes that children's first contribution to society is a shit...
which makes it somewhat immortal.

Perhaps its not right (barring the empirical consistency); but the theory
isn't exactly historical.