My fellow wet shavers, look not to silly, pretentious Fusions made out of gaudy metals and aimed at folks with more dough than sense as the source of our doom.
Somewhere, there is a cheap plastic disposable razor with your name on it.
No, it's not in a WalMart in the USA. It's in some remote corner of Egypt, or India, or China. There, some guy who has been using a DE razor his whole life is reaching for that razor of our doom. He's not a hobby shaver, he doesn't post here, but he's DE all the way because it's what he can afford.
He's reaching for that disposable because it's now cheap, easy, and it's modern, and it's a little touch of affluence that is now within his economic reach. He's really no different in that respect than the US shaver was in 1971.
When enough of his neighbors across the world join him, we are toast.
There will probably be a cottage industry making DE blades for die hards, but those still dabbling in them will wistfully talk of the old days when they were affordable. Our little hobby will then be like jousting on horseback, something so antiquated, barbaric and requiring equipment so expensive that it won't be an alternative, but a curiosity.
That's the Shavepocalypse. It started in 1971, took over much of the world, and stopped, because there are some people too poor to be bowled over by marketing, but it never went away, and now it's slowly advancing.
Somewhere, there is a cheap plastic disposable razor with your name on it.
No, it's not in a WalMart in the USA. It's in some remote corner of Egypt, or India, or China. There, some guy who has been using a DE razor his whole life is reaching for that razor of our doom. He's not a hobby shaver, he doesn't post here, but he's DE all the way because it's what he can afford.
He's reaching for that disposable because it's now cheap, easy, and it's modern, and it's a little touch of affluence that is now within his economic reach. He's really no different in that respect than the US shaver was in 1971.
When enough of his neighbors across the world join him, we are toast.
There will probably be a cottage industry making DE blades for die hards, but those still dabbling in them will wistfully talk of the old days when they were affordable. Our little hobby will then be like jousting on horseback, something so antiquated, barbaric and requiring equipment so expensive that it won't be an alternative, but a curiosity.
That's the Shavepocalypse. It started in 1971, took over much of the world, and stopped, because there are some people too poor to be bowled over by marketing, but it never went away, and now it's slowly advancing.