Over at Talk Left,
Jeralyn is upset that Obama concluded a paragraph about the harmful results of economic adversity with the claim that when you lose your job, you lose your dignity. I think this is a truism and can't imagine how she or
Lambert can interpret it as a demeaning or elitist remark. I think
Kyle Moore has an effective response to this nonsense and I was reminded of a
line by Joseph Conrad from The Heart of Darkness:
“I don’t like work, no one does, but I like what is in the work, the chance to find yourself.”
You get a sense of who you are by pitting yourself against the external world and finding a place in it. One gets somewhat attached even to lousy jobs for this reason. Losing a job means loss of freedom and dignity does depend on freedom.
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