Laziness
I think the number one enemy of all society is laziness. You might think that a simple solution would be Mexican genocide, but that's simply racist and unreliable.
Another enemy of society is boredom, a frequent topic on this site. I think that something that inspires a lot of boredom is playing with small children, like my own 19 month old ray of sunshine.
Sometimes it is fun just because I enjoy her reaction, most times the actual playtime content is an utter BOREATHON. The other day we were playing blocks and when she finally insisted on letting my conceptually elegant structures stand, she insisted on replacing the top portions with blocks that didn't make any architectual sense. Replacing a framed set of three blocks with nothing but an upward pointing right triangle may be artistically postmodern, but to me it makes no sense. I had the feeling she was removing and placing blocks for only its own sake.
In her playhouse in the backyard, i came up with a terrific role-play in which we would "feed" the baby (fake) grass, in order to act out one of our own favorite and recognizable rituals, mealtime. She thought it necessary to continue to pull and collect grass to a point that I no longer saw a corollary with our own actual institutional version. Bordering on the absurd already, it became more about pulling grass out of the ground instead of mimicking our own practical cultural behavior.
So my solution to all of this? Banged my wife.
Yeah, it seems like a ridiculous step but for almost pure solution-proposing reasons, but banging my wife would bring about a natural playmate for our young daughter. This other small child, in time, would become as enthralled with these mundane activities as the first. Therefore, they could perpetually entertain each other, leaving Dad to aimlessly wander the internet and update his fantasy baseball team's lineup and roster.
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