This publication is dedicated to the pursuit of skills (among other less important things).  It has documented game-show hackers (pre-internet), video-game virtuosos, and race-car driving bike-riding video-game-shooting master Italians.  Each of these examples document individuals with skills that were acquired only through impossibly hard work and that have no redeeming societal value.  Why are they working so hard?

I don’t know.

I really don’t know.  Hard work is an exercise in extreme failure.  Each excruciating step in the process is planted right on the back of another attempt’s failure.  The enigma of it all is exaggerated when you consider the game-show hackers that have been previously discussed.  It is as if the concept of hard work has been narrowly defined as a 9 to 5 job in a factory; any task that does not involve that experience is considered constructive and/or worthy.  Everything else is a cliche from Office Space.  So as long as the man is working on his own project in his own way, then it is worth the extreme effort.

More to come…

Until then, what does Rakim have to say about this?