{"id":16927,"date":"2020-09-07T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16927"},"modified":"2020-09-07T08:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T15:08:25","slug":"splendor-on-and-in-spite-of-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16927\/splendor-on-and-in-spite-of-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Splendor on \u2013 and in spite of \u2013 Labor Day."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Labor Day is a holiday established by people who hate human productivity, who hate the human mind. It is a day set aside on the calendar to celebrate and sanctify indolence \u2013 and violence. Photo by: Karen Horton<\/a><\/p><\/div>This is me looking back on looking back on a Labor Day a long time ago. The first extract was written on Labor Day, 2005, as the City of New Orleans was demonstrating for all of us that dependence on government is a fatal error. The second extract was written a year or two before that. And the Labor Day I am talking about there was years before that. Even so, every bit of this is perfectly apposite to the world we live in now \u2013 more is the pity.<\/p>\n

This is me from elsewhen.<\/a> I think about this every year at Labor Day. I spent much of the weekend working on business planning issues, macro, micro and meta. I remember from the days when I had a job how much I relished long weekends, because I could build so much on vast tracts of uninterrupted time. I did a bunch<\/em> of money work last week, but my weekend was virtually my own \u2013 to fill with the work that too often takes a back seat to money work. Off and on we had Fox News on in the office, and the whining, pissing and moaning was an effective counterpoint to my entire way of life<\/a>. My world is where the Splendor is, no alternatives, no substitutions, no adulterations, no crybaby excuses:<\/p>\n

The time of your life is your sole capital. If you trade that time in such a way that you get in exchange less than you really want, less than you might actually have achieved, you have deliberately cheated yourself. You have acted to your own destruction by failing to use your time to construct of your life what you want most and need most and deserve most. You have let your obsession or anger \u2013 over what amounts to a trivial evil in a world where people are shredded Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Labor Day is a holiday established by people who hate human productivity, who hate the human mind. It is a day set aside on the calendar to celebrate and sanctify indolence \u2013 and violence. Photo by: Karen HortonThis is me looking back on looking back on a Labor Day a long time ago. 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