Isn't it odd that the people who are most vocal about the joys of manual labour are those with soft hands, delivering their speech from a comfy chair in a warm office?
Or as we know them, Governors.
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Ben
Lecturing
About Me
- prisonerben
- United Kingdom
- Previously known as "one of Britain's best known prisoners...he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility of the system" The Times, Ben was finally released from prison after 32 years in August 2012. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when he was 14 years old, he renounced violence and fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings. As a result of speaking truth to power, he served far longer than the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to argue that he had "been punished excessively for a crime committed as a child". One of the more intellectual of prisoner-campaigners, Ben chose to educate himself from schoolboy level to having both undergraduate and post graduate degrees. He is currently one of very few prisoners in Britain ever to attempt a Doctorate. Ben's speciality is non-violent action and the Human Needs Theory. Now on Life Licence, He is forging a career as a CJ policy consultant, writer and - as ever - campaigner.
Take care not to bite the hand that 'frees' you Ben.
ReplyDeleteSo the poor brave souls suffer the torment of those cloying chairs, and the sweltering heat, to ensure that it is possible more people can enjoy the hard outdoor manual labour, and you mock them for it? For shame sir, for shame
ReplyDeleteManual labour can be a joy, if you choose to do it and are not unduly forced that is. I don't do manual work, for pay, but I run to keep fit and I have a self made woodwork workshop in the garage and making something by your own hand has great satisfaction capability. Also when you are physically fit there is a joy to using your body hard and feeling it respond.
ReplyDeleteWhat is sad Ben is that you never had the chance to grow up with the freedom to learn this.