Key points

The Industrial Revolution changed how men defined themselves.

As men spent more and more time in factories with machines, their identities became more machine-like.

It’s a counter-cultural move for a man to honor the fullness of his humanity.

I see the Industrial Revolution as tearing men away from home. It literally forced men off their farms. It also served to disconnect men from their bodies. Their bodies no longer related to livestock, caring for animals, planting, and harvesting what would feed them and their families. They built machines, worked with them, repaired them, and eventually began identifying with them. Even when they worked with the land, there was a shift from a relationship with it to power over it with excavators, bulldozers, and backhoes.

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