/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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>Doing a repetitive, meaningless job like a drone in the modern world would never come even close to the feeling of satisfaction your mind and spirit experiences when your life is at your hands and you alone are responsible for your survival in a direct and primal manner.
definitely this. As good and pragmatic as capticalism is, its gretes fault is its demand for efficiency, which gets in the way of individual work satisfaction. Men build because they want to have something they can look back upon and call their own. Look at david, when Michaelangelo made him he took no breaks and no short-cut to construct something so beautiful. There is a great liveliness is that made by one's own hands. He put his blood, sweat, and soul, into what gave him the fulfillment of having made a legacy for himself.

>He had to know about many topics, food preservation, water decontamination, basic architecture, plant knowledge, weapon making, etc.
this as well, a well-cultivated mind is a path to happiness, as it fulfills one of the base needs of the human mind: mindfulness. That is why it is encouraged to use the literature that surrounds you to learn more about the world, and never delay in learning something new. I'm doing some CS for a degree, but i also plan on writing a few books,and possibly getting involved in politics. I also plan on starting my own miniature hydroponics system using an arduino and some other gear in order to grow some of my own food (to decrease the bill, though only slightly). I'm thinking peanut.

>Every skill was related to spiritual and physical survival and was applied, the brain overflowed with joy after succeeding. You took your and your family's security into your hands, you could properly and with a straight face call yourself a man.
I agree 100%, not much to add to this. You know those hipsters (nu-males) right? who do ironic masculinity? Do you think, deep down, they realize they are less than a man, an incomplete person?