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Originally Posted by Draught Horse  Economics is the Renaissance Man's major. Consider:
It includes history.
It includes philosophy and ethics (particularly, praexology).
It includes the study of law (applying authoritarian codes to particular cases).
It includes math.
It includes science.
And for what its worth, it can make you a living. |
I'm curious, is "the Renaissance man" an obese, office-bound chap that runs in the tread-mill of life trying to pay off his student loans?
I think that it would be decidedly unfulfilling if anyone spent their life studying what other people do, and not learn to actually produce anything themselves. Therefore, the true Ren-Man should also be a part time farmer.
By farming, we can:
Produce healthy food to feed our family
Get exercise which helps keep our bodies fit
Work beside our children and our parents
Teach our children practical skills and give them an opportunity to use them
The modern alternative to farming is to learn a highly specialised skill and become an employee. This is that alternative that I chose to pursue. By doing this, we can:
Sit in a chair all day, away from our family, and get a money-like electronic commodity in exchange for our time.
We then leave the home to buy food to feed our family, most of which will eventually cause cancer and a host of other diseases.
We then leave the home to purchase a membership at a health club to get the exercise our body needs to stay fit.
We try to spend quality time with our family in the evenings to learn what they’ve been doing all day, and get to know them. (This comes in handy on Sundays, when we teach a class on the biblical view of the family. )
We then leave the home to visit our parents who live many hours away. We mostly talk about our job and what activities the children are doing (We pass along the information about the children that we’ve learned by spending evenings and weekends with them).
Our children learn to be consumers, but not producers, so when they are of age, we send them away from home and purchase training which will enable them to become a wage-slave like ourselves.
Ironically, the industrialised life just seems to be far too inefficient for my achieving my goals and meeting my biblical responsibilities.