Bring Back the Artisan Mentality

Everyone should have an opportunity to become a master of his craft

Centuries ago, people learned their skills by apprenticing with a master artisan. They started young, doing all the drudgery and repetitive work—sweeping floors, keeping the fires burning. But they didn’t care. They knew that over time they would become highly skilled in a craft and would have a profitable and rewarding career—even if it took years to achieve that level. Eventually, young apprentices would learn how to produce high-quality products on their own that would be in demand and respected by many.

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"By Ford!"

It is just a quote from one of my preferred writers, the englishman Aldous Huxley, his novel "Brave New World". Well, Mr. Bodek, after more than a century of sacrifices - most of them human - to the mass production deity, we go back to the future of artisanship. Once more, Aldous Huxley: "After Many a Summer - Dies the Swan". The problem is, that we are all inducted in being lured by easy, quick gains - we all too often forget the wise saying "no Pain, no Gain". One more point: that "everyone should have (at least) an opportunity to become a master of his (and her) craft" sounds like a more religious than social principle. When we prostrate ourselves in front of the chinese or indian mass production altars, we just deceive our social commandments.