How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take
"Galahad Clark never intended to get into the shoe business, let alone the anti-shoe business. And he likely never would have, if it weren’t for the Wu-Tang Clan. " Any story with that sentence in it deserves to be read in its entirety.
Posted Apr 22, 2008
todd
Responses to this thread:
todd:
the article specifically describes the use of shoes for fashion or practical purposes, but that doesn't change the goal to minimize the amount of time spent in shoes or the points that the article was making.
bj:
but as i pointed out in meatspace, i still wonder about the artificial hard surfaces we all walk on today, vs traditional softer ground surfaces
mabrown:
See Hlavacek article, too. We humans have been using footware [sic] for a long time! http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-3847112_ITM
todd:
mabrown: not a long time in terms of evolution, though, right? 1k years? 5k? how long? and how much of that footware was actually built of a stiff, thick sole (which seems to be the problem).
Jim Cowie:
Anyone visiting from another star would be hard-pressed to take us seriously as a species if they saw our feet. We're obviously wobbling around on just another pair or really poorly-adapted hands. "Just fall out of the trees recently, you people? Sapient much?"
Jim Cowie:
On the other hand, some people are taking good advantage of that fact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiq_xdooaSw
David S.:
one evolutionary advantage to wearing shoes might be avoiding tetanus. but now that i've had my shot, i'm a barefootin' with impunity.
