What makes the possibility of passionate labor is not so much the actual work, but the context. Society generally regards farmers as rubes, but rich people go out and buy farms or ranches. Farm workers are even lower on the social scale, but elite people often garden with joy.
kelley wrote:
> >
> >So, what's this about passionate labor? Didn't I get a rash of shit
> >for advocating something like that, just a few weeks ago?
>
> perelman doesn't glorify cycling as labor, nor did he suggest that passion
> could only be about bodily exercise, since he included programming as one
> form of passionate labor. and somehow i suspect that he wouldn't liken a
> historical transition as movement from virginal and defiled.
>
> kelley
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