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My colon is in full intestinal uproar. I had Mexican for lunch. The pollo loco is now poo poo loco. Not good. Yet, I keep eating Mexican food. I'm willing to bet that constipation is unknown in Mexico.

I was also amazed at this video. It is people like this that keep the world moving. It is definitely not the corner office, but you can't beat the view.

It is fun to denigrate blue collar workers, but they are the ones who make the world run. If they all called in sick on the same day, the entire planet would go straight to shit. I keep this in mind when I am doing my job. Alienation is the feeling that what you do doesn't matter. This is how Marx described working as a machine in a factory setting. But the thing is that Marx didn't work in any of those settings. I have. I spent five years of my life mindlessly stacking boxes. I was never bored. I never had time to be bored.

Marx was just a lazy fucker who didn't want to work. All he managed to do was to instill in a lot of people the hatred of work. I think about this when some left wing rock star sings his Marxist anthems and consider the fact that his show would be impossible without the road crew that sets up the lights and the sound to make the show possible. I can't do anything without considering the labor that went in it. I think about the road crews that paved my commute. I think about the workers who assembed my car. I even think about the Colombian who picked my coffee. We are all links in the chain. If you want to know your importance, let your link break.

I probably have it easy in the boredom department. This is because my mind is extremely full. I am always thinking. My life is filled with repetitive mundane tasks, so my mind always turns to thoughts about projects. I reflect a great deal. If I become engrossed in something, I enjoy that, too.

What is missing is the idea of craftmanship. People don't make things from beginning to end. This is division of labor and comparative advantage. This is what makes modern life possible. Making something from scratch is relegated to the status of hobby. Some people have artistic outlets in their work like tattoo artists and auto body techs. Building construction might hold similar expressiveness. But most jobs are just cogs in the machine. It just takes one cog to go awry for the machine to break down.

I think people have the wrong ideas about work. They think work should always be pleasant. From a purely hedonistic viewpoint, work is the last thing you should want to do. But hedonism is not happiness. Work is happiness. I have been bored plenty on vacations. I am rarely bored on my job.

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