Fee-fi-fo-fum

I honestly think we all may have a fascination with being giants. I think we all jump at the chance of being larger than life. I think this is the reason we love to watch huge, seven foot men dribble a ball around a court and try to out jump each other. I think this could also explain why we have pets. It gives us a chance to be humongous, even if it's just to our Schitzu. It also explains why we always pick David and Goliath as one of our favorite bible stories. It's the reason we keep retelling the stories of Jack and the Beanstalk and Snow White. We simply want to be huge. Call it a God complex or whatever you want, but I'm convinced we all want to be enormous.

In our our attempts to be monstrous, I've noticed a trend. We start shrinking everything around us to make us look bigger. Think about it. Not big enough to tower over a whole soccer team? Shrink 'em. You got yourself a Foosball table and YOU are the giant in charge. A hockey rink is way to big for you to stand over? Shrink that baby too! Air hockey is born. Can't wrap your head (or your wallet) around owning a full size Corvette? Build a tiny model. Bam! You're the creator and god of Corvetteville. Why stop at cars, though? What about whole railroad systems? Piece of cake. Get some mountainous-looking Styrofoam, paint it green, stick tiny fake trees in it, and lay down a track. Buy a shrunken train and there you have it.

Cars and trains are just a few examples. I won't even go into flea circuses, or Lego's, or tiny Coke bottles, or girls (or metro guys) wearing shirts three sizes too small. Miniaturizing is everywhere. We want our phone and our computers smaller. We want smaller stomachs and Smart Cars. We want smaller budgets and government. We want tiny gymnasts and eight year olds in college. It seems that everywhere we look, we want shrinkage. Well, maybe not everywhere...