Handmade Nation
I read the article of the lady with the little hand-made trinkets and what not and I thought what she was doing was pretty cool, but that was just about all of it. That is until I read an insightful position statement on the Uthink blog. It made me take a look at the article again, and I realized that what this lady and all of the people that were part of the “handmade� world were doing something that hadn’t been done in a while. They were trying to put the power of industry back into the hands of the “little man.� And yes professor I know its cliché but that is exactly what it is. This “handmade nation is giving hope to those people who still wish to make things that they can be proud of and, if it is wrong to hope so somebody stop me, to make a living doing so. This lady with her slightly eccentric taste is part of a brave movement that should be recognized as a hope. A hope that the way of life that many thought was gone and lost to the sands is still within reach. I think it is in most people of our nation to rather serve themselves rather than the vested interest of some board of directors that they have probably never seen, much less met. I also may have gone off on a romantic limb and seen only that, the end which would be portrayed in the movies to tear at the emotion, but I do believe that is the part of that article that I like to ponder.