Put First Living
“…the defiance he recommends is not defiance for its own sake but an escape from the corrupting influence of all the pressures which interfere with self-realization: and that among these pressures none is more evil than that which leads men to put first, not ‘living,’ but ‘making a living.’
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“We hear a good deal today about the fact that in an industrial society too many men are condemned to spend their lives in tasks which have for them no meaning. More than a hundred years ago Thoreau wrote: ‘The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earn money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. If the laborer gets no more than his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.’” — Joseph Wood Krutch; Thoreau: Walden and Other Writings
Tim Lahan
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