Shop Class as Soulcraft

The man who works recognizes his own product in the World that has actually been transformed by his work: he recognizes himself in it, he sees in it his own human reality, in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity, of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself

decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our relationship to our own stuff: more passive and more dependent.