Posted on 07/21/2017 5:18:42 AM PDT by SJackson
This guy is a genius, he’s a National Treasure.
I still remember his poor daughter.
The notion of physical work, or lack of same, also underpins the United States’ massive illegal immigration problem. …It is merely a notion. IOW, a lie promulgated by the left, one among numerous.
Our current elite more resemble the decadent aristocracy of 18th Century France, more suited to the cocktail lounge than the shop floor, much less the field of combat. It will not take a lot to topple them, just the right circumstances. Imagine the current elite if we were in the military situation of early 1942, with the Japanese defeating us at every turn and our first North African expedition resulting in German victory. Picture Obama, or Hillary or Bill Clinton, rather than FDR, in this situation. Any of the three would either give up or go Hitler-level insane.
Plumbers and undertakers....
Remarkable insights in this article. Thanks for posting it!
Bfl
If nothing else, knowledge of physical labor creates an understanding and motivation to invent something to automate that labor. Surely, the first holes were dug with hands. To create larger holes in less time, hands gave way to shovels; shovels gave way to backhoes, and so on.
Great column. The value of physical work cannot be understated.
My job has transformed to where I have to do a small amount of construction on occasion. Today, I’m attending a small trade show for contractors. There’s a bunch of tools in the back of my truck because I wanted to build a new display item for our products.
Most of my colleagues have no clue how to do such things.
Last week, I was having my house re-sided and we found some asbestos panels that needed to be removed. After some research, I discovered that I can remove them myself for free or pa a remediation company thousands of dollars to do it for me.
5am last Thursday found me in a Tyvek suit, rubber boots, rubber gloves and a respirator. I was almost done when the contractors arrived, absolutely exhausted. One of the contractors was a wildfire firefighter and told me that in the field, guys were passing out right and left in similar conditions.
A few years ago, I was on a project and gave a millennial co-worker a project that involved hammering some nails. This kid had never in his life held a hammer.
There is a huge value to the knowledge that you did it yourself.
Done physical labor most of my life. Worked many a college ‘Big Man On Campus’’ type under the table. That said in the long run it’s better to use your brain then your back.
I'd done lots of manual labor on our family farm, but that wasn't for pay. Somehow that seems different.
Very few modern liberal icons has worked a damned day in their life at a job that didn’t involve spending other people’s money.
Obama, Hillary, BJC, Ted Kennedy, Biden, etc.
Perhaps the most recent example of someone who didn’t is Jimmy Carter.
“Money had replaced muscle, glamour had replaced grit.”
— John W. Vance; “The Death: Eradicate”
I’m closer to 70 than I am 60 and grew up in the oilfields of West TX with very few of the jobs offered that I haven’t worked. It’s interesting to look at those my age that didn’t grow up in such a physical environment. so many just seem to have wasted away.
When societies blow up or are destroyed from without, brawn is very necessary. No so when you live in a decadent society likes ours - at least, for the moment.
BTTT.
Thank you!
Great Post!
Wherever there is a societal problem you will find government policy is the likely cause.
And of course, on the issue of physical work it is government policy that has made it an issue.
The great unspoken irony (tragedy?) is that the government pays subsistence to millions of able-bodied people making it unnecessary for them to work to support themselves.
In effect the government pays them to NOT work.
Then the government proclaims that a shortage of workers makes it necessary to bring in uneducated, unskilled workers to do the tasks the welfare class won't do.
As if that cultural engineering wasn't enough, we have federal and state labor laws that make it illegal for kids to work summer jobs as they did a few generations ago.
So most grow into young adults without developing a work ethic, never having an opportunity or need to work for their own spending money.
Hats? I’ve been scanning slides from my husband’s grandparent’s 1957 trip through Europe...they wore suits and ties all the time, and the ladies were in dresses and stockings.
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