Today as I stopped at Kohl's to return some items I got to thinking about how our society has become one where Monk would not stand out. For those who do not know who Monk is, he is the germaphobe defective detective played by Tony Shaloub. He is a fictional character but sadly there are many out there just like him or worse and society is becoming him and also putting this on the children creating more people like Monk.
The man who waited on me in Kohl's was standing behind a splash guard. He also had on gloves, not just your surgical gloves but these thick dish washing gloves. He had on his mask of course because government mandates those...what really struck me was when I went to hand him my items he took out a sack, opened it for me to place my items in. Then he used a tool to close the bags. All of this while he had gloves on. I thought to myself how ridiculous it was, but more how sad our this is the norm and how ridiculous society has become.
Who would have ever imagined the world would become a world where Monk is not the defective detective anymore. If he was real he would not even stand out as a germaphobic defective detective since the world is him..... "Wipe wipe" turned into squirt squirt.. and clean clean.. When people touch things they don't reach for a wipe like Monk, but they do reach for a squirt. It is all so sad.
Monk was not happy being a germaphobe, he hated it. He had a very sad life, felt tortured by his phobias which were not just of germs. He was conditioned since childhood. He was even afraid to hug.
I wonder how many have ever heard of Howard Hughes? He was real and he had a very sad life, he was successful but his germaphobia ended up destroying him. He would also fit into today's society of people who are so deathly afraid of germs. Howard Hughes was so afraid of germs that at the end of his life he laid naked in a hotel bed, was so afraid of germs that he burned his clothes if anyone around him became ill.
Research showed that Howard's germaphobia was linked to his childhood. His mother was terrified that he would get Polio (he was a child during the outbreak) she worried about his exposure to germs and protected him from them as much as possible. She was cautious of what he ate, checked him daily for diseases and made him sleep in her bedroom most nights. Isn't this what society is doing to the young people?
What scares me most of all is what all of this conditioning is doing to the children. Society is training them to be germaphobic and I bet anyone who suffers from it would say it is not a fun way to live. I watch them as they are afraid of sharing items, they are afraid of being unmasked, they are afraid to touch each other and sanitize any time they touch something new. They are scared to death of germs. They watch the adults around them live in fear of germs. This has to have an impact on them. I wonder what kind of young adults will come out of this.. hmm check out Howard Hughes.. watch Monk, even though it is fiction there are people that are so afraid of germs they fail to live. It is debilitating for them. They do not like it. Yet here in 2020 society is teaching its youth how to be germaphobic.
I also wonder maybe if this is a part of some kind of bigger plan. Create a society of people afraid of germs, people who eventually become afraid to go outside, who are afraid of everything. It might sound far out but who would have ever in a million years thought we would be where we are now. So many are scared of stores, people, germs of any kind. They do cower in fear and their fear is real. But is that fear more harmful than what they actually fear? This fear is going to harm the children and they deserve better from the adults in charge of their world.
I fear that the repercussions of all of this are more than meets the eye! and I hope this all ends before there is no turning back for the kids. You cannot condition people to fear the world around them and then all of the sudden say it is all well and good. The damages that are being done last a lifetime!
+germaphobe
+unmask
+harmful for kids
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