We live in a world that conspires to throw
people together and make them breed indiscriminately. This is how we’ve ended
up with line dancers. If our environment is so stuffed that we can no longer
put the kettle on without worrying that the greenhouse gases will cause the
waters to close over the heads of a small island nation somewhere, then we
cannot continue to breed. Particularly if it results in stupid looking people wearing
cowboy hats and boots in suburban community centres.
It has been scientifically proven that
living with other people causes population increases.
Yet still the myth is perpetuated that
two-by-two is the only way to go, with almost the whole world seemingly singing
silly love songs in the intervals when they’re not beating the crap out of each
other.
In Australia the 2006 census revealed that
the number of single person households had risen to nearly 25%. This figure is
projected to rise to over 30%, i.e. more than 3 million households by 2026. Now
would be a good time to buy shares in companies making instant dinners for one.
It signposts a huge change in our social fabric towards the comfortable fleecy
end. Most of the developed world is coming to a shared realisation that
co-habitation really does have knobs on and that we have an inalienable right
to squeeze the toothpaste tube any damn way we want to.
Ménage à Mois is dedicated to demonstrating that the world would be a better
place if fewer people inflicted themselves on others by insisting on living
with them. It's time for single people everywhere to rise up - but not unite - definitely not unite.
