Ok Mr. Rowe and all MB I have read posts and threads up the ying-ying about your concept of dirty jobs and your point of facts to the white, blue and pink collar workers. In my opinion, the country today may need to step back in time. Not to recoup the past. That really couldn't be done. What I think needs to be addressed is the values of the past. Why can't that be revived. Am I from that far back in 'old school?' Take DC for a sample....Look at the work those men have done with their boys. Maybe picked up what many would say were bad habits, but at least they work, and looks like work hard. In a normal situation(not as a celebrity they have become), but as just a regular crab fisherman, the work is hard, tough, and self satisfying from my take. I guess what my point is, isn't that what the bottom line is all about...The job-not matter the scale(bad pun), no matter the pay, whatever the rewards in monopoly money, it's what you bring to the table and how you play the game.
Isn't that the point you're driving home each monday and tuesday?
I feel that people have already started to find their way back to some re-creation of their values. They may not be the same as back in the old school, but a variation of them. Life is just not the way it was back then and people like the idea of pioneering new ideas, even though they are timeless.
Kind of like reading a book that has been done before but for some reason people love it. Like the book the "Secret". Mike has stated in the past there is nothing original in the book, which I tend to agree, but the way it was packaged, made it a best seller and the idea of the book is still a good one. A re-creation of old foundations and patterns of thought. .02
I think this is a great question. I hope no one minds me putting in my .02 because my mother was a baby boomer not me.
Where I go to school is not far from the town I grew up, about and hour drive on I94. But it is amazing how different it is here. Kids do not respect authority at all, let alone their parents. Drug use is huge, I worked with a kid who got and MIP MIC posession, and DUI in the same week. Hes only 17!
I must have been raised in a time warp, because all of this seems strange and barbaric to me. The simple life based on basic moral attitudes, hard work, ethics. Seems easy enough, why are we drifting farther from these things?
Sometimes I feel much older than I am. I dont see that as all that bad.
