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[lifeinthewoods]

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/crawford.htm

Read this (most of you are on break, so you have the time!)

Then maybe you'll understand why I do what I do.

No, I'm not saving the world through the trades I learn.

Tallbikes don't save the world, just

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[foxage]

"Extraordinary human ingenuity has been used to eliminate the need for human ingenuity"

thats a good line.

happy holidays, jonner

[mybloodsforyou]

build me a tall car

[lifeinthewoods]

build it yourself. make that english degree useful.

[bestill_myheart]

i really enjoyed reading this article, jon. i saw your post a few days ago and came back to it when i had a chance to really sit down and read it fully.

i appreciate a lot of what this article said, and really find a lot of value in the concepts he presented. i think that you building your bikes really challenges various forms of oppression inherent in our capitalist "democracy."

however, it is difficult to read this article as a woman and not feel somewhat troubled by its suggestions for empowerment. he notes: "One feels like a man, not a cog in a machine. The trades are then a natural home for anyone who would live by his own powers, free not only of deadening abstraction, but also of the insidious hopes and rising insecurities that seem to be endemic in our current economic life.". the whole article is very male-centric, whether it realizes it or not. and that's not to say there aren't a prevelant amount of tradeswomen, but there are enough ways in which labour for women is often the antithesis of feeling like a "(wo)man", but