A good rant
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It will come as little surprise that I'm right on board with her views.
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Yes.
But.
(Rambling ranting reply...)She needs to get a proper job.
Something "less unique". Or should that be more unique?Maybe realise she's hitting a mid-life change, needs to cut down on her screen time and take up some fulfilling hobbies.
I was thinking at one point in the video, when did all new pianos become naturally black unless you pay significantly more. Not that I yearn for 1960s yellow and blue bathroom suites, or 1970s avocado, or curtains in orange and brown, 1980's gold taps and turquoise patterned carpets. Please allow me to be rather selective in my takes from the past. Art deco yes, Louis quinze no.
I was also thinking where she fits on Maslow's
This romanticising of past things and lives is mostly folly, however fascinating and entertaining we may find our history.
While I'd like to live for a few years in New York between 1939 and 1942, I know my accommodation would be small and dirty, people would be rough and sexist and smelly.
They'd have running water and electricity by then, but for starters, how'd you wash and dry your clothes.I wouldn't trade my life as a librarian for my grandfathers' lives as pit hewers. Or for their grandfathers' lives as farm labourers.
So yes. But.
Jane Austen observed over two hundred years ago,
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness"
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