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Johnny Dollar's avatar

This is how we spin into a dark age. Mind you, I've been arguing we've been in a dark age for at least 25 years now.

Today my barber was telling me he had to let go of an employee because they didn't know how to cut hair. He was explaining to me they no longer teach basic theory anymore. In the past, the first class was basically a chat on theory (different head shapes, styles etc.). He explained it takes years to hone your skills. The no one wants to put in the years combined with not being taught properly you're gonna get a lot of crooked hair cuts methinks.

My father was a tailor. He was an apprentice for at least two years before he conquered Montreal often known as one of the best in the city back in the fun days. One of his former employees is now my tailor. He was telling me that the way it works now is people set up a tailor shop but don't know how to cut. They call him to do the cutting. He's one of the last of the Mohicans. Same problem in upholstering. I took a couch to be upholstered eight years ago and the owner was a one man show. He couldn't find anyone to be an apprentice to keep the trade going. My brother-in-law is a GC - same thing. Hard to find competent work. But the trades appear to have a better chance to survive I reckon.

Again. Losing old-world artistry and craftsmanship leads to a drop in excellence. Heck, Hugo's Hunchback of Notre-Dame was a tome to the death of true architecture and that was a novel from the 19th century! Just to show you the descent is slow and winding.

COVID just showed me man is mostly irrational and not interested in facts and truth. When he's scared, he's scared and that's all there's to it.

It's interesting this is happening in many trades and industries.

I have a shoddy theory that sorta ties into this. Between The Honeymooners and Seinfeld, it was a steady stream of outstanding landmark sitcoms. That represents roughly the period from the 1950s and 1990s (the years the Habs dominated the NHL incidentally for the most part). Since Seinfeld, has there been a sitcom to pick up the torch and carry it high?

I don't think so. Therefore, yada, yada, yada, I submit civilization has fallen since Seinfeld's last episode.

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Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

All I know is that Big Pharma has great influence over which courses on medicine are taught. They avoid teaching courses on the true role of nutrition and the immune system being central to good health! They shape the brains of physicians to fit the allopathic medicine model!

https://thomasabraunrph.substack.com/p/battle-for-your-brain

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