ytliek wrote:
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What can possibly drive or motivate an individual so strongly to delve deep into that craft and dwell with all of lifes' interuptions knocking about. What is the reward, or satisfaction with devoting untold hours to one's craft? Is it comradery, mindfulness, or isolated bliss?
It's a balance between passion and service.
It becomes who you are.
The isolation aspect is where the craft is between the craftsman and the result - the perfection and the journey are one. .. the player is important - this happens as a container for the effort. A guide.
Another aspect is the unveiling of tradition. The passion releases this and a glimpse is given to unbroken lineage - master to student - through generations .. unrecorded mostly, but at least 4 generations in living memory .. perhaps .. well .. a long, long time.
The tradition is like a skeletal frame .. life puts the flesh on it - and it grows.
A larger picture happens.
And that is why I ask about value .. money leaves no value residue between individuals .. and it seems to me that humans are nothing without other humans .. that the residue of value is what we maintain to overcome the larger events our planet can present .. volcanoes and such things that no individual can confront..
This value residue has been given another name of late .. it is called "profit" and it seems to be an expropriation from the value-residue we create and maintain to survive as community.
I'd like to say "so much for Ayn Rand" but I'm willing to be taught better .. cellular autonamata, for instance, work well ..but there might be 2 ways of looking at it.
Perhaps our cellular definition is done to create the collective rather than destroy it?