The rise and fall of trades is a banal affair
The rise and fall of trades is a banal affair. The sole concern, for most of us, is our own security, profit or expansion. To gratify one's ego - which is true of both 'selfish' and 'altruistic' work. Seeing how it relates to the grand scheme of things does not interest us. We are not curious to get a taste of timeless righteousness in what we do. So, when a profession is at a low ebb, or faces criticism, we seek to terminate the critic and further our business by various noble, ignoble means. We never change our own practices, question our own motives, learn something entirely new, switch to something less profitable yet less hazardous. And we wish life were kinder! Neither our hope nor our cynicism is of any significance whatsoever. The more we understand that there's nowhere to reach, nothing to become and no real security to be found anywhere (for everything changes), the easier it is to let go. Throwing ourselves into something new may look tough financial