11 April

Watching some US Masters. You can see status in everything, because it is everything for humans. Take the beloved baseball cap, worn universally by professional golfers and even fans. It’s completely idiot headwear for the sport, which carries very high skin cancer risk. Some stats. More than a quarter of golfers get skin cancer. Golfers are 250% more likely to develop skin cancer than the general population. Professional golfers diagnosed with skin cancer average 25.5 years of age. Eye cancer is also a huge risk. Very few wear sunglasses. Why do they wear caps and not wear sunglasses? Because that’s the style that trends. It’s status, fashion. People want to fit in with what other people are doing. A life lived according to what’s smart and right will always be in tension with what everybody else is doing.