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$\"Shop.jpg\"$ <\/span>From the NYTimes<\/a> (not from SMcKnight):<\/p>\n

\n The television show<\/span> \u201cDeadliest Catch\u201d
\ndepicts commercial crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Another, \u201cDirty
\nJobs,\u201d shows all kinds of grueling work; one episode featured a guy who
\ninseminates turkeys for a living. The weird fascination of these shows
\nmust lie partly in the fact that such confrontations with material
\nreality have become exotically unfamiliar. Many of us do work that
\nfeels more surreal than real. Working in an office, you often find it
\ndifficult to see any tangible result from your efforts. What exactly
\nhave you accomplished at the end of any given day? Where the chain of
\ncause and effect is opaque and responsibility diffuse, the experience
\nof individual agency can be elusive. \u201cDilbert,\u201d \u201cThe Office\u201d and
\nsimilar portrayals of cubicle life attest to the dark absurdism with
\nwhich many Americans have come to view their white-collar jobs.<\/p>\n

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Is there a more \u201creal\u201d alternative (short of inseminating turkeys)?<\/p>\n

High-school
\nshop-class programs were widely dismantled in the 1990s as educators
\nprepared students to become \u201cknowledge workers.\u201d The imperative of the
\nlast 20 years to round up every warm body and send it to college, then
\nto the cubicle, was tied to a vision of the future in which we somehow
\ntake leave of material reality and glide about in a pure information
\neconomy. This has not come to pass. To begin with, such work often
\nfeels more enervating than gliding. More fundamentally, now as ever,
\nsomebody has to actually do things: fix our cars, unclog our toilets,
\nbuild our houses.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"