Staples Are Facist!

Read this from somewhere :

Staples are fascist. Fastening your papers with staples means that no one else is allowed to determine the order in which the papers will be sorted, only you; and one sheet may never be detached from the stack. "This is how I have decided you will view these papers, and you may not choose otherwise." Rearranging them is wrong.

Staples are also for one-time use only, and make is less convenient to recycle the paper, displaying a wanton disregard for the environment. And they make shredders unnecessarily exciting.

Paperclips, otoh, are very democratic and ecofriendly. Fastening papers with paperclips means that you have organized a stack in a means which you believe to be optimal, but if someone else wants to change the order, or even take some away from the stack, that's fine by you. They are readily available to rearrange, experiment with, prioritize, or spread across a library table. "It's all good."

Paperclips are also reusable, and are easily removed for reuse, or to allow paper recycling or shredding. They can also be reshaping into all kinds of useful cubicle hangers, lock picks, or whatever, promoting additional creativity.

Staples are handy for replacing surgical sutures or nailing down external cable. But with what we know about the environment and landfills, only sad, culturally-bound dittoheads use staples for paper.

My brothers and sisters: free yourself from those chains of oppression formed by crumpled staples! Allow the bright light of democracy to guide you away from the fascism of your Nixon-loving parents. Power to the paperclip! Power to the people!

On the subject of staples, anyone seen a stapleless staple? Tha Japanese loves it.
Stapleless staple