Rowhouse Logic - Breathtaking Inanity

Here’s a topic I haven’t thought much about. Apparently the annual World Toilet Summit is taking place in Beijing. Decent sanitary conditions should be considered a basic human right. With so many other pressing issues - so much blood being spilled - I doubt this issue will be seen as anything other than unimportant for quite some time. We have a long way to go.

According to the organisers, the toilet topic is one of the world’s last great taboos - on a par with sex, which gave rise to the sexual revolution in the 1960s, women’s rights, which led to women’s liberation in the 70s and reappraisals of stigmatised diseases such as leprosy and Aids in the 80s and 90s.

“People are saying ‘We want good toilets!’ because toilets are a basic human right and that basic human right has been neglected,” said Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organisation, a co-sponsor of the summit. “The world deserves better toilets.”

Most of the bars I frequent could use better toilets. Perhaps I just need a new bar.

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