People in developed countries have no skills. You know, real, useful, end-of-the-world-and-you-have-to-survive-and-rebuild-civilization skills. Sure, we can type and edit photos and blog and reformat, but if someone handed you a machete and a coconut, how would that go down? Or if someone handled you a large piece of cloth and said, ok, wear this. Or if someone asked you to make charcoal? We would be lost. And confused. And we would have nowhere to blog about those feelings.
I was cutting a pineapple open, and it struck me: this is kind of complicated. It’s covered in a hard prickly skin, and it’s sharp in places, and there is a hard core I can’t really eat. Take the pineapple and compare it to an apple. You just eat an apple.
It is like when we lost our real skills, God took pity on us and said, ok America, you can have apples and berries. That’s not too complicated, you just eat those. You can’t HANDLE pineapples.
Here, I see people welding metal frames in the street. They make wooden furniture. They strap an inordinate about of stuff to the roofs of taxis for long voyages. They can DO stuff. So, make sure you have actual skills, not just marketable ones.
I was cutting a pineapple open, and it struck me: this is kind of complicated. It’s covered in a hard prickly skin, and it’s sharp in places, and there is a hard core I can’t really eat. Take the pineapple and compare it to an apple. You just eat an apple.
It is like when we lost our real skills, God took pity on us and said, ok America, you can have apples and berries. That’s not too complicated, you just eat those. You can’t HANDLE pineapples.
Here, I see people welding metal frames in the street. They make wooden furniture. They strap an inordinate about of stuff to the roofs of taxis for long voyages. They can DO stuff. So, make sure you have actual skills, not just marketable ones.