Reply #43: I agree [View All]

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and there's also a hubristic defense mechanism at work. Those that created that single cog see their cogs as part of the Republican machinery that "worked" for the big business of work. Idleness, in the form of time taken away from business for "soft" arts, to question the authority of time, disrupt the flow of time by diverting to it toward the real "idle" that don't work, won't work, can't work, is the devil's tool...(back to that fundamentalism and Bible literal black/white thinking that can be extrapolated to diversity discrimination in whatever category. Regardless of the facts, they believe that this "purity of purpose" got them through the bad times, never mind the reason there were bad times). Heck, this is America where one can be anything with hard work. The white collars know more about fixing what's causing the line to crash, and we're glad we got the best part of that deal, just make the cogs, make the cogs, make the cogs. Punch in, clock out, make the cogs, make the cogs...there is nothing "outside the box" into which the cogs are packed or wouldn't be if people, just like us, would work instead of just talk and sit around thinking how to spread the good time around. That's idleness, a scheduled SHUT-DOWN, and leads to, oh no, BAD TIMES (back to fundamentalism again)! Quite a protective circle and so easy to lead!

With so much physicalness in their jobs, they see Dems as disruptors of the timed status quo. They come to a single-mindedness about EVERYTHING, relating it all to their achievements in creating that "tally of bricks." With great pride, our family motto was: Bill (retired inside long-distance call router troubleshooter)can fix it, but Andrew (plant floor supervisor) can make it!

Many of these "industrial revolution" types actually are highly skilled and knowledgeable about their "soft" avocational endeavors, but don't let it get around.