The Reagan Diaries, chapter “Shiftless, Looking for Easy Work”

[tinyurl.com/pardon-snowden]

“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting is what a boy does, because he has no real effect in the world. But the tradesman must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality, where one’s failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away. His well-founded pride is far from the gratuitous “self-esteem” that educators would impart to students, as though by magic.”

[Sed · beautifully put. I hope the rest of his words are on the same level and the conclusions match the truth contained in the quote.]

On that note, Ash: Edward Snowden thoughts?

[Very proud of the kid. Would write but my writing organ is broken. I formally take back 3% of the horrible things I’ve said about his generation. Sometimes all it takes is one or two persons to stand up and do the right thing and everyone else who was scared to do it will follow.]

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