hygiene
Hygiene is the modern mask by which we wage war on countless invisible foes. Under the social contract of cleanliness, we treat our hands and bodies as if they were shrines, a tool to suppress inner anxieties. No amount of hand sanitizer can scrub away the grime of the mind, inevitably giving birth to new fears in the name of self-control. What begins as a pure quest for health often morphs into the authority to judge others by their flawed hand-washing habits.