I use to work at the Pentagon and in the underground mall there was a shoe shine guy that had pride in his work and did a wonderful job.
Folks would line up and wait.
As for the ass clown, you are right, and I have given him way too much credit where it is not due.
He’d probably do a poor job at that too.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner
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