A comment by Nilfisk leads to an invitation to all Tuna Melt readers to check out this 1958 essay and ponder the fallacy that government can "stimulate" the economy by handing out cash to politically connected construction companies.
In my comment, I meant to express that it seems there are many things being done or manufactured today for which there is no real motivation other than to sell for money. Perhaps I am wrong and for every item manufactured, there is an individual who is genuinely interested in producing and refining it, solving the problem of it - someone who has "the fire" for it. On the other hand, maybe it is the case that *most* of what is manufactured or "worked on" today is produced only to fill a market need. I think the latter must be partially true, as evidenced by the great majority who work in order to be paid - a great inefficiency in the economics of the human spirit.
Ah....but get up in it, and before you know it, you're all f'shiznit about the quality of wingnuts. You're comparing your wingnuts to those made in China and Vietnam and taking personal pride in the quality of yours. You're staying up late, thinking about the better wingnut.
This is better than chasing some frivolous passion, I think. Passions are bread for people who've already had too much to eat. Doing something obscure in the chase for economic profit -- that's like finding an edible berry when you're starving.
There is in your remarks the survival of a sort of forced optimism, by which a person may somehow expect to find some satisfaction with whatever lurid occupation circumstance foists on them, and this is nevertheless set up as the model and standard of what ought to be. Some would suggest that none of that has any value, unless it is to support the efforts of those who chase their passions. The superfluous is the most necessary.
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A pencil "with a message".
In my comment, I meant to express that it seems there are many things being done or manufactured today for which there is no real motivation other than to sell for money. Perhaps I am wrong and for every item manufactured, there is an individual who is genuinely interested in producing and refining it, solving the problem of it - someone who has "the fire" for it. On the other hand, maybe it is the case that *most* of what is manufactured or "worked on" today is produced only to fill a market need. I think the latter must be partially true, as evidenced by the great majority who work in order to be paid - a great inefficiency in the economics of the human spirit.
Ah....but get up in it, and before you know it, you're all f'shiznit about the quality of wingnuts. You're comparing your wingnuts to those made in China and Vietnam and taking personal pride in the quality of yours. You're staying up late, thinking about the better wingnut.
This is better than chasing some frivolous passion, I think. Passions are bread for people who've already had too much to eat. Doing something obscure in the chase for economic profit -- that's like finding an edible berry when you're starving.
There is in your remarks the survival of a sort of forced optimism, by which a person may somehow expect to find some satisfaction with whatever lurid occupation circumstance foists on them, and this is nevertheless set up as the model and standard of what ought to be. Some would suggest that none of that has any value, unless it is to support the efforts of those who chase their passions. The superfluous is the most necessary.
"a person may somehow expect to find some satisfaction with whatever lurid occupation circumstance foists on them.."
yes...but only if it can be their passion, for what is passion other than some lurid desire circumstance foists on us.
Ah ha! Now I've caught you, you nihilist!
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