Shakespeare, Handsaws, and the Dangers of Reverence
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- What do Shakespeare and handsaws have in common? They (along with many other things) can both be dangerous to hold above critique. Respect is a powerful and useful tool, reverence can be a path toward flirting with disaster. Love the things you love, but don't close yourself off from other good ideas.
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I really like the way you showed how important it is to know the difference between reverence and respect. It is something that has bothered my for some time and I couldn't really vocalise it effectively. The area where I am most concerned is the military in many countries. Over the last 20 years or so the attitude of many countries has move from respect to reverence when it comes to the military and that worries me because that is how coups happen and how countries turn more militant or become more dictatorial. We should definitely respect the military, and those in our past that enabled us to have the freedoms we have now, but it should never cross over into reverence.
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Damn good. I’m here for more.
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I watched, I learned, I liked and subscribed. I realised I needed to watch again and pay more attention as I forgot what the third thing was.
Good video, can't wait to see more.
Thank you! And thanks for the sub!
Think of all those "You're doing it wrong' videos. A thumb nail that ensures I don't click on it.
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I agree with this! A similar approach, but in a different field, is Bruce Lee's approach to martial arts. He said there's no one greatest martial art. Learn as much as you can from a variety of sources. Take what works for you from each, and make your own style.
I have that same approach to woodworking, and I use both Japanese and Western style tools.
Thanks for this!
I am loving seeing all these different approaches and ways to look at this idea! I don't know a lot about Bruce Lee aside from that he was a fascinating guy, and a student of many, many Martial arts styles, including his own, which I think was based entirely around defensive fighting?
I find both styles of tools useful to incorporate as well. My default is usually to reach for the Western tools, but that mainly has to do with having spent more time with them in my hands, and being better set up to use them in my little shop. Plus, by circumstance of living in the west, good quality western tools are easier to come by than quality eastern tools, at least without bankrupting myself.
Well, something a tad different: that's good. So, I've subbed for more, and I am hoping for the best. Good luck to you.
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I love this discourse. In the Army, I learned a definition of respect that I’ve always maintained and have only in the last decade or so interrogated precisely why.
Respect: Treat (all things) others as they should be treated.
Note how intensely subjective that is. It requires that I apply my own subjectivity astutely to determine precisely how it should be treated. The should statement then, the ethical aspect of this injunction, is itself subject to personal contingency and therefore remains existential (rather than static.)
Respect is therefore contingent, existential and thus historical.
Reverence on the other hand is static-we might revere the dead. To revere a living thing is to ossify it, mummify it, museumify it. Reverence suits nothing and nobody except for whatever power dictates its terms. Reverence is philosophical death, or philosophical suicide as Camus would call it.
Man, that's a cool framing. I don't know the language of philosophy nearly this well, but thank you for laying it out so clearly!
I have come to use the word "respect" to reference behaviors towards others (people, creatures, things) motivated by an aspiration to achieve holistically beneficial outcomes. My variation on your theme.
I agree that reverence is very often, maybe most often, exactly as you describe. But I think reverence can also be something one does because one values their emotional response to the activity, akin to music, dance, and other arts. I have no use for it myself, though.
0:57 false! His greatest was Omlette The Musical.
The Studley Tool Chest suffers from reverence. It is good, but not that good. Fans attribute unknown deep reasons for what were probably minor mistakes...
Sure, and it can be discussed and still remain an impressive thing of beauty.
"Do You Bite Your Fork At Me Sir?" Is a total banger.
@@Danrwin Agreed. We do not learn from what we revere. Critical analysis is how we progress.
The no nails thing is a falacy. We have dated nails in temples from japan going back at least a 900 years. Not to mention Tansu chests which use a lot of metal hardware and... nails.
For anyone who disagrees google "oldest metal nails in Japan" and see what comes up. There is a great schollarly article from Japan on thr subject that dates nails in various temples.
Oh snap, I stand corrected! I also could have been more specific. Sashimono is traditional practice of furniture making using no glue or fasteners and is what I was primarily referring to. Of good note though, that practice developed over around 1000 years and saw some changes during that time, including the introduction of the handplane in the 1500s after the opening of new trade routes. Thanks for the info!
Interesting