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Nadia Nichols's avatar

Great post! Work is good! Idleness breeds illness of the body and mind. Without purpose, without a reason for rolling out of bed in the morning, without a lively curiosity of what challenges and gifts the day might bring, there's no sense to life at all. And yes, socialism promotes idleness with the promise of free everything, and AI relieves us of ever using our own brains again.

Pull the plug. Grow your own food. Put all those homeless people living on city sidewalks in the "town farms" to build their own housing and grow their own food. Every town used to have one, a place that took in the old, the orphans, the people that didn't fit in. Give them a job to do, a reason to get up in the morning, the vision of their work producing their own food and shelter and safety. We hunger for food and purpose for the mind and body. Spirituality is nourished by both. "Head, heart and hands" sums it up perfectly.

Martin McCarthy's avatar

Trenchant analysis.

Read shop class as soulcraft. It points to connecting the Head, the Heart and the Hands. What school should be. As such it is the antidote

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