Newt On Work — Stupid Racist Accusations

Work is not a dirty word. We need to change the perception that work is somehow degrading. How did that ever get started? Work is something only man can do. It is among the gifts men have to work in creative ways to create things and accomplish things. When I was in school the good Jesuits taught us that there was a difference between labor and work and that what we were enjoined was not to labor on Sunday because labor was doing brute work at the level of an animal, simply exerting muscle power while work was exercising your humanity. That lesson stuck with me because I think the distinction is a good one. We need to restore the work ethic that says that we are empowered not by leisure but by work, not by loafing but by creating. Newt gets it which is one of the reasons that I like Newt.