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learning how to do something with your hands that you care about and that is demonstrable and that other people care about and that lasts is indeed A Thing, bob black and abolish work, notwithstanding, and whether or not it is good for the world in some larger sense.
i might argue, if i were in the mood, that the kind of work that people do now, tending toward ephemera even when it is significant, is part of an expanding alienation of recent decades. luckily i'm not in the mood.