Yeah so I was thinking about macho narratives about "the invention of fire" and humans becoming an apex predator etc Did you ever think about how soap does not exist in nature, and we had to invent it as a result of inventing both fire and large-scale hunting
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Soap is a concept that most likely came into existence as a result of cooking meat over fires It's the "mixture of tallow and ashes", fat dripping down into alkaline potash and then lathering up into bubbles when you try to pour water on it to clean it up
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This most domestic of inventions coming about as a side effect of hunting aurochs and building fires to roast them on and shit The genteel standards of cleanliness we live with come from a lifestyle of killing Before then, we could never *really* wash ourselves
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Yeah okay I know this is from Fight Club but Fight Club derailed it with this total nonsense about associating soapmaking with bombmaking
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You know the soapmaking consultant they got for the movie, to make sure the vats they used looked authentic and stuff, was this really sweet old lady who ran a home soapmaking business and who got really freaked out when she found out what the movie was about
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They use codenames for the title of unreleased movies all the time
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