A Goblining We Will Go…

It seems that we are, and that we fucking love it!

I don’t know anyone who likes going to the dentist—even those who have great teeth and take care of them assiduously. So when the pandemic rolled around it’s not surprising that we all took the opportunity to ignore our teeth. Not only did we NOT go to the dentist, (use of dental services fell between 25% and 30% ) but a surprisingly high percentage of us slacked off in our day to day care of our teeth as well—with about a quarter of us going about 3-days between brushings.

But being in ‘goblin mode’ is about much more than our teeth— we’ve not been showering nor exercising as much, not wearing as much deodorant, not changing our clothes and not brushing our teeth or wearing makeup. And there is some indications that these new habits are sticking around.

Are we being lazy or austere? Have we turned our time to more important things? Or have we realized that it all just doesn’t matter—that we’ve flipped the script and this is a type of the vaunted ‘self-care’?

And the answer is yes…Americans are tired of being told what to do, what is healthy, what isn’t. We are pushing against it all, of trying to be something we aren’t, and are wanting just to be let alone. Fuck judgement, fuck expectations and fuck those that have them. Want we want is an unfiltered, raw and real existence and we’ll get there through our own personalized anarchy—ignoring some rules, revising others, making up some of our own, and embracing ourselves, imperfections and all.

A little note from the dentists: don’t apologize when you finally make it in. According to them, they’ve all seen much, much worse.