It’s disgusting to work with people who spend more time avoiding work, or their supposed purpose at their place of employment. I was taught and raised to work hard. This was to show accomplishment, appreciation, and value of work. This creates character. This fake work attitude shows an abysmal decline in character. I’ll stick with my ha…
It’s disgusting to work with people who spend more time avoiding work, or their supposed purpose at their place of employment. I was taught and raised to work hard. This was to show accomplishment, appreciation, and value of work. This creates character. This fake work attitude shows an abysmal decline in character. I’ll stick with my hard-earned work ethic and be proud that it was passed down to my sons.
Very true Ruth. This is what gave life meaning and purpose. To work hard and have something to show for it. To be tangibly connected to one's labor and see the fruits of it. Technological displacement and corporate drudgery have rendered work an apparition, with no emotional or psychological connection for the worker. This is why the homesteader, the small farmer, the self sufficient, even the tradesmen and women will have the best opportunities not just for survival, but to reconnect with one's labor and enjoy the true value of it personally.
I worked for a mid-sized corporation for three years, the first and only time in my life, having been self-employed for years. It was great for a while but then the work began to dry up in my team, mainly through managerial bungling. I was sitting around twiddling my thumbs and slowly going mad with boredom. I watched co-workers play computer games, watch sports or scroll through mainstream media sites as they wiled away their day, all for the sake of collecting that pay packet. Eventually I went to the CFO and asked for a redundancy, but she told me they didn’t do voluntary redundancies and she was sure they could find things for me to do. They moved me to a different team and I was happily engaged in work again. A few months later there was a ‘restructure’ and, as I’d put myself on the radar, I was made redundant. The manager of the team I had been moved into was so sad to lose me, she pulled a few strings and brought me back as a contractor from July 1st 2019. That, and the redundancy package, facilitated us moving out of the city to now living on 3.5 acres in the bush. And I’m still contracting to the same company, amongst a few others, nearly five years later. So that is where a strong work ethic got me. As you say Ruth, hard work builds character, and it also opens doors that laziness will never encounter. Now, off to collect the eggs from my delightful flock of free ranging, hard working chooks!
GC, have you ever read the essay "Feminism, The Body And The Machine" by Wendell Berry? Take a moment to do so if you haven't. I think it was written over 40 years ago now.
Of course there are machines out there that are very useful to us, but it's amazing how little wonder people have for how sophisticated our physical bodies are. Not to mention that they are intricately tied into our equally amazing minds.
Berry seems to have little in the way of exposure in the "online "community"". I'm surprised you've heard of him. His canon of work is deep and wide, and he is eminently quotable, though I prefer not to do it to the point of rendering his thoughts in snippets.
Have you read his treatise on "racism" in the U.S. - "The Hidden Wound"? It is sensitive and sophisticated, subtle and nuanced, and spoken from the voice of an authentic denizen of "The South".
I discovered Berry back in the 00's, and he made a pretty big impression on me because while I have not heard or read anything from him in years, his name called out to me from your comment.
I remember that Berry was not impressed with the Internet - he preferred (and presumably still does prefer) to stay in the "IRL" lane.
It's a funny coincidence that you have reminded me of Berry's preference for personal contact over "e-contact." Katie Hopkins talks about the same thing in this interview she just gave... she's largely talking about free speech, but about a third of the way into the video she says that she thinks social media is getting "old" and that people are going back to gathering in person. (Apparently, she won't even do zoom - which is interesting since she is a pretty big social media influencer.)
"Social media", besides being anti-social, is a planet-wrapping estrangement/panopticon machine. Am I the only one, aside from maybe Steve Cutts, who notices that there is no "social fabric" left, and everything here in "The West" is tantamount to an internecine war?
(And I utterly resent the "Like" button!)
Cheers to you and yours in this festive season nonetheless!
The problem today is that for the people who are willing to work hard they often are not rewarded for their work ethic. It is now all about DEI (DIE) and trying to get replace workers where possible. I worked as a night stocker for a large grocery chain for a few months before I had to resign for personal reasons (surgery). They reduced my hours from ft to pt. They continued to give me extra duties because I was the only one with a work ethic.
I finally said f**k it. Two years later I self-published my first book. I'm now starting to make money from that. Knowing what most employers are like now, I don't want to work more than pt since getting my next book out is most important to me to increase my income, etc and leave the US.
Ruth, have you worked for a large corporation in the past 10 or 20 years? If so, you would have been outed by many of the DEI crowd, for being selfish, violating our safe space with your white privilege and stepping over minorities to advance basically, HR would cast you out to a remote job and or a field job, where you will rot away deleting “to all” emails, where we welcome Sheila, formerly Michael and the environmental impacts of having multiple gender bathrooms….
Yup. The days of honest work for honest pay are over. In clown world there are only two types of people...suckers, and those who refuse to be suckers any longer.
That sounds a lot like what Ayn Rand said, except that her 2 types of people are "the moochers and the producers". Which now we see are the parasites and the hosts, and we know where the moochers and parasites are concentrated.
This was a great thought experiment, so it would be great to also extend it to 'living from nowhere' to gain multiple residencies in multiple countries without being refused by any one of them? Understandably, that is much more difficult unless you are an illegal migrant invading here or the EU, but there might be a way to turn that around in our favor too?
Let's ask the illegals being welcomed here with no resistance, and prepaid EBT cards and transportation what their advice on this might be?
So very true, fortunately I retired 8 years ago before the truly craziness overcame reality. I honestly don’t know how people can keep up with what to say or what’s not allowed. Don’t get me started on pronouns🤦♀️, the height of stupidity when this began, only to be outdone by ‘gender-identity.’ What a dysfunctional world we live in.
It’s disgusting to work with people who spend more time avoiding work, or their supposed purpose at their place of employment. I was taught and raised to work hard. This was to show accomplishment, appreciation, and value of work. This creates character. This fake work attitude shows an abysmal decline in character. I’ll stick with my hard-earned work ethic and be proud that it was passed down to my sons.
Very true Ruth. This is what gave life meaning and purpose. To work hard and have something to show for it. To be tangibly connected to one's labor and see the fruits of it. Technological displacement and corporate drudgery have rendered work an apparition, with no emotional or psychological connection for the worker. This is why the homesteader, the small farmer, the self sufficient, even the tradesmen and women will have the best opportunities not just for survival, but to reconnect with one's labor and enjoy the true value of it personally.
I worked for a mid-sized corporation for three years, the first and only time in my life, having been self-employed for years. It was great for a while but then the work began to dry up in my team, mainly through managerial bungling. I was sitting around twiddling my thumbs and slowly going mad with boredom. I watched co-workers play computer games, watch sports or scroll through mainstream media sites as they wiled away their day, all for the sake of collecting that pay packet. Eventually I went to the CFO and asked for a redundancy, but she told me they didn’t do voluntary redundancies and she was sure they could find things for me to do. They moved me to a different team and I was happily engaged in work again. A few months later there was a ‘restructure’ and, as I’d put myself on the radar, I was made redundant. The manager of the team I had been moved into was so sad to lose me, she pulled a few strings and brought me back as a contractor from July 1st 2019. That, and the redundancy package, facilitated us moving out of the city to now living on 3.5 acres in the bush. And I’m still contracting to the same company, amongst a few others, nearly five years later. So that is where a strong work ethic got me. As you say Ruth, hard work builds character, and it also opens doors that laziness will never encounter. Now, off to collect the eggs from my delightful flock of free ranging, hard working chooks!
Awesome and truly awarded 👍🏼
GC, have you ever read the essay "Feminism, The Body And The Machine" by Wendell Berry? Take a moment to do so if you haven't. I think it was written over 40 years ago now.
https://religioustech.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Berry-Wendell-Feminism-the-Body-and-the-Machine.pdf
Here is a brief little excerpt:
"My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and
our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that
we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order,
ultimately, to replace ourselves.
The danger most immediately to be feared in “technological progress” is
the degradation and obsolescence of the body. Implicit in the technological
revolution from the beginning has been a new version of an old dualism, one
always destructive, and now more destructive than ever. For many centuries
there have been people who looked upon the body, as upon the natural world,
as an encumbrance of the soul, and so have hated the body, as they have
hated the natural world, and longed to be free of it. They have seen the body as
intolerably imperfect by spiritual standards. More recently, since the beginning
of the technological revolution, more and more people have looked upon the
body, along with the rest of the natural creation, as intolerably imperfect by
mechanical standards. They see the body as an encumbrance of the mind—the
mind, that is, as reduced to a set of mechanical ideas that can be implemented
in machines—and so they hate it and long to be free of it. The body has limits
that the machine does not have; therefore, remove the body from the machine
so that the machine can continue as an unlimited idea"
Have never read it. Looks interesting. Will check it out. Thanks!
Great words from the great Wendell Berry.
Of course there are machines out there that are very useful to us, but it's amazing how little wonder people have for how sophisticated our physical bodies are. Not to mention that they are intricately tied into our equally amazing minds.
Thanks for the link!
Berry seems to have little in the way of exposure in the "online "community"". I'm surprised you've heard of him. His canon of work is deep and wide, and he is eminently quotable, though I prefer not to do it to the point of rendering his thoughts in snippets.
Have you read his treatise on "racism" in the U.S. - "The Hidden Wound"? It is sensitive and sophisticated, subtle and nuanced, and spoken from the voice of an authentic denizen of "The South".
I discovered Berry back in the 00's, and he made a pretty big impression on me because while I have not heard or read anything from him in years, his name called out to me from your comment.
I remember that Berry was not impressed with the Internet - he preferred (and presumably still does prefer) to stay in the "IRL" lane.
It's a funny coincidence that you have reminded me of Berry's preference for personal contact over "e-contact." Katie Hopkins talks about the same thing in this interview she just gave... she's largely talking about free speech, but about a third of the way into the video she says that she thinks social media is getting "old" and that people are going back to gathering in person. (Apparently, she won't even do zoom - which is interesting since she is a pretty big social media influencer.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulO7M704fjQ
I have not read The Hidden Wound... but I will keep it on my wish list for used books. Thanks for the recommendation!
"Social media", besides being anti-social, is a planet-wrapping estrangement/panopticon machine. Am I the only one, aside from maybe Steve Cutts, who notices that there is no "social fabric" left, and everything here in "The West" is tantamount to an internecine war?
(And I utterly resent the "Like" button!)
Cheers to you and yours in this festive season nonetheless!
Yes...'tis a pity how little wonder we appear to have left in us.
Very well stated 👏👏
This sounds like the AI bot you just described
My comments are AI automated. The machine knows me better than I know myself.
The problem today is that for the people who are willing to work hard they often are not rewarded for their work ethic. It is now all about DEI (DIE) and trying to get replace workers where possible. I worked as a night stocker for a large grocery chain for a few months before I had to resign for personal reasons (surgery). They reduced my hours from ft to pt. They continued to give me extra duties because I was the only one with a work ethic.
I finally said f**k it. Two years later I self-published my first book. I'm now starting to make money from that. Knowing what most employers are like now, I don't want to work more than pt since getting my next book out is most important to me to increase my income, etc and leave the US.
Kind of a rant but I think it is relevant.
Ruth, have you worked for a large corporation in the past 10 or 20 years? If so, you would have been outed by many of the DEI crowd, for being selfish, violating our safe space with your white privilege and stepping over minorities to advance basically, HR would cast you out to a remote job and or a field job, where you will rot away deleting “to all” emails, where we welcome Sheila, formerly Michael and the environmental impacts of having multiple gender bathrooms….
I kid you not….
Yup. The days of honest work for honest pay are over. In clown world there are only two types of people...suckers, and those who refuse to be suckers any longer.
That sounds a lot like what Ayn Rand said, except that her 2 types of people are "the moochers and the producers". Which now we see are the parasites and the hosts, and we know where the moochers and parasites are concentrated.
This was a great thought experiment, so it would be great to also extend it to 'living from nowhere' to gain multiple residencies in multiple countries without being refused by any one of them? Understandably, that is much more difficult unless you are an illegal migrant invading here or the EU, but there might be a way to turn that around in our favor too?
Let's ask the illegals being welcomed here with no resistance, and prepaid EBT cards and transportation what their advice on this might be?
Don't forget "mental health days".
So very true, fortunately I retired 8 years ago before the truly craziness overcame reality. I honestly don’t know how people can keep up with what to say or what’s not allowed. Don’t get me started on pronouns🤦♀️, the height of stupidity when this began, only to be outdone by ‘gender-identity.’ What a dysfunctional world we live in.
My strategy is to make enough money from my online business, mostly via self-publishing, then to retire somewhere that costs less than the US.
Hahaha, yes. At the same job I referenced above their was a co-worker who wanted to be identified using she/her. I couldn't take it anymore...
Pick that cotton faster, slave.