Social foo: Tinkering
May. 13th, 2008 01:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaThe importance of having hobbies.
The attitude that working with your hands is somehow stupid or undignified annoys me. Even somebody who lives in their head a lot, like myself, can feel really good by assembling some items myself or with another person.
I started the article on the American Educational System on tvtropes.org, and somebody came along and, in the name of 'adding some humor', dumped a good deal of that very attitude on it. It's a wiki; I didn't bother to get into some kind of editing war over it. It just bugs me.
The attitude that working with your hands is somehow stupid or undignified annoys me. Even somebody who lives in their head a lot, like myself, can feel really good by assembling some items myself or with another person.
I started the article on the American Educational System on tvtropes.org, and somebody came along and, in the name of 'adding some humor', dumped a good deal of that very attitude on it. It's a wiki; I didn't bother to get into some kind of editing war over it. It just bugs me.
