Quote Originally Posted by Gilly View Post
That is actually really fucking cool, but...it's just not the same. What I want out of being a blacksmith is more than just banging metal; it's a social role, an inheritance, a sense of occupational ethos that simply doesn't exist any more with the grandiose scope of our society and the degree of specialization that each job takes.
Except it does in how my friend came to learn his craft and how his practice of it is a concrete and living extension of his being. Don't be so flip, lil' dreamer.