"More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry boo

"More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn’t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I’m not sure I believe it’s necessary" I personally find that line deeply disturbing. It is utterly backwards. It starts with the tail's wagging driving the dog and only gets more wrong from there as a view of the world. The whole point of the books was to present a small picture of the world of adults to small children that they could understand and learn. Not as the basis of the world as it is. That is taking the map as the territory writ large. The author is assuming that things they understand are better without any reference to the world. It references. That could be funny in itself in a "deliberately apply the causation backwards sense". That people so readily believe such utter irrationality because it flatters their egos and would support tearing down what actually works is the frightening part. We have seen it before and only ends in tears. It is another example of the frankly goddamned stupid idea that any system they cannot understand without any learning is automatically inferior. Reality really doesn't work that way.