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Matthew B. Crawford's "Shop Class for Soulcraft" and "The World Beyond Your Head" are excellent explorations of how manual work can change your outlook on the w
by Veen 8y ago
Matthew B. Crawford's "Shop Class for Soulcraft" and "The World Beyond Your Head" are excellent explorations of how manual work can change your outlook on the world.
I've recently become obsessed with woodworking videos on YouTube. I think watching Paul Sellers spend two hours making a drawer with hand tools has become for me a cathartic release of my frustrations at spending the day in front of a screen interacting with nothing physical except a keyboard.
- aaaaaaaaaaab 8y agoKoreans watch others eating [1], westerners watch others doing manual labor. Welcome to the future! https://gizmodo.com/you-can-pay-to-watch-strangers-eat-on-the-internet-in-s-1683950563 https://gizmodo.com/you-can-pay-to-watch-strangers-eat-on-th...
- porpoisely 8y agoAmericans do both. I love homesteading, hunting, fishing, outdoors cooking and outdoors eating videos.
- decebalus1 8y agoHuh. Just the other day I listened to this podcast https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691697963/close-enough-the-lure-of-living-through-others https://www.npr.org/2019/02/05/691697963/close-enough-the-lu... which discusses this exact new wave of living vicariously. Woodworking videos is one of the examples in the show. I highly recommend listening to it.