Is it entirely impossible that we could dare to reinstate the handmade over the machine made. I know for one that skilled manual labor or craftsmanship could be the route to a fulfilling life. Or do we just accept that there is no real question of ever returning to a craft based economy post industrial revolution.

And I was just sad. Enduringly so and yet the world thought of me happy. No amount of joy could quite fix me

I was just a free agent in a world without meaning