In an online meme, the top panel depicts a child playing video games with the caption reading, “We need less of this”.
The bottom portion of the meme depicts a child working on an engine, the caption reading, “And more of this”.
Not everyone is wired for auto repair.
The child drawn to the video games should instead be encouraged to either write the code to produce the games, formulate the narratives laying the foundations of the imaginative worlds in which the games take place, or how to run businesses specializing in making these sorts of products available.
Contrary to the latest intelletual fad among assorted varieties of populism, manual laborers are not more inherently moral than those whose vocations are not necessarily classifiable as blue collar.
Conservatives and Christians bemoan how wretched these creative works have become but stear the youth away from striving to produce an alternative option.
Frederick Meekins is an independent theologian and social critic. Frederick holds a BS in Political Science/History, a MA in Apologetics/Christian Philosophy from Trinity Theological Seminary, and a PhD. in Christian Apologetics from Newburgh Theological Seminary.
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