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Has anyone here read Lois on the Loose?
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Aug 30, 2017 18:23
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Man I love Traction. I get a little tired of the shilling for Beta, but I guess you gotta pay bills. I thought the latest issue's article on injuries was interesting.
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Dec 15, 2017 21:36
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I'm reading Shop Class as Soul Craft right now and it's pretty good, it the deeper philosophy stuff gets boring. Lois on the Loose was really good.
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Apr 10, 2018 05:54
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Deeters posted:The concept of that one sounded good, but I was worried that it would turn into "Millennials So far, it does. I'm about 2/3 of the way through. It's more a Mike Rowe approach. The author is a Ph.D. in philosophy, so he has enough years in academia to shred the inherent self-importance that comes with college degrees. He goes down a Pirsig-style path of essentialism a lot, but the basic premise is that we're doing ourselves a disservice both as individuals and as a society by devaluing manual work, trades, self-reliance, mechanical skills, etc. It gets kind of close to "men aren't manly enough any more," but not too bad. Overall, he places the blame on society as a whole devaluing trade work and falsely inflating the importance of college degrees and points out that it began during the industrial revolution, not recently. The individual is the victim, not the culprit.
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Apr 10, 2018 15:54
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". Does it avoid that?