Ever since my mom brought home the first tube of striped toothpaste and I squeezed some on the end of my toothbrush, I have been fascinated by it. Finding out how it's done has not caused my fascination to fade.
Does it make our lives easier to live?
Does it do the job better than none striped toothpaste?
Does it contribute to reaching some higher state of being?
I guess the answer to all these questions is probably “No”.
But what it does do is highlight man's genius for being able to make even the most trivial of things more aesthetically pleasing. So imagine what can be achieved if we are able to harness this genius to the more challenging problems facing the world today? We may not solve these problems, but improving the aesthetics of them may be enough :-)
