There is a beauty and dignity to actual, direct work. For the past forty years that has slipped away from the people of the West, being replaced with a desire for remote and virtual work. Still, physical work remains crucial: without it almost nothing would be grown, manufactured, delivered or repaired.

There is real beauty in doing a job well, even a simple job. It is our great loss that this form of beauty isn’t appreciated and is seldom discussed in the public square; even worse that it is considered of lower status.

But without work… without actual production… we die.

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Please, before going back to the mundane, examine how you look at work, and consider that it is the insertion of human creativity and energy into the world, overcoming entropy.