I thought you might appreciate this passage from my 2nd novel, A Builder's Tale. Chapter Forty. "It had something to do with their ruggedness, or that perception, he supposed, their desire to be individual, to see themselves as special, unique, tough against the climate, survivors of the forest, hunters, subsistence men who did not see themselves as joiners. Unions were for downstate, and they lived in the harsher land of “God’s country”, and God would never have been for unions, would he?
A self-defeating perspective Wilson did not understand coming from a working man, a politics he found foolish, ill advised, and one that he had given up talking about. These northern Michigan men never grasping that without the thrust of unions, everyone’s wages would suffer.
If the fools wanted to give it all away, the gains of almost a century, so be it. Their children and grandchildren would reap the pain. He had learned years ago that no amount of reason was going to shake them, no matter that at the recent ‘big meeting’ Courtland would have happily fleeced them all, and taken their boots and bootstraps with him.
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And yes, it is true, lately I've had trouble maintaining an insurrection long enough to please her.
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Attribution will save your soul.
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Quantum entanglement and all that.
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I thought you might appreciate this passage from my 2nd novel, A Builder's Tale. Chapter Forty. "It had something to do with their ruggedness, or that perception, he supposed, their desire to be individual, to see themselves as special, unique, tough against the climate, survivors of the forest, hunters, subsistence men who did not see themselves as joiners. Unions were for downstate, and they lived in the harsher land of “God’s country”, and God would never have been for unions, would he?
A self-defeating perspective Wilson did not understand coming from a working man, a politics he found foolish, ill advised, and one that he had given up talking about. These northern Michigan men never grasping that without the thrust of unions, everyone’s wages would suffer.
If the fools wanted to give it all away, the gains of almost a century, so be it. Their children and grandchildren would reap the pain. He had learned years ago that no amount of reason was going to shake them, no matter that at the recent ‘big meeting’ Courtland would have happily fleeced them all, and taken their boots and bootstraps with him.
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