(03-31-2016, 08:29 PM)BadDad Wrote: Again, I don't think anyone is looking for the whole world to switch to DE shaving...just for a reasonable way to maintain the hobby we all enjoy.
And grim your post is, in my opinion, one of the big reasons people DO turn to traditional wet shaving...to slow down. To stop and smell the roses. To take a moment out of a constantly hectic day and just pamper oneself with a mundane chore-turned spa treatment.
I don't disagree with you. The majority of the world is caught in the hype of hyper-activity. But it is this hyper-activity disorder that we are forced to comply with on a daily basis that makes many of us want to just hit the pause button and take some time away from it all. Traditional wet shaving, for many of us, provides exactly that... And I believe that we will find more and more people discovering the same thing.
And I honestly believe that this will be especially truwe amongst the millenial generation. They have grown up without ever having experienced life without cellhphones, computers and the internet. The desire for nostalgic re-connection to a past they never knew is going to be very strong in many of them, I think, and that will translate into a steady influx of new shavers, keeping our hobby, and it's artisans, alive...
And, can you imagine, my friend, when younger generations do, indeed, stop and smell the roses? Everything changes and, yet, nothing changes. I am guessing that you are a young man (anything under 50). I am an older gentleman (70, as I type this) and yet we are all here for the same reason, a love of wet shaving and a desire to pass that on to the next generation, be they male or female. We truly do have something to offer.