Word of the Day: Banausic
Ordinary people, at work.
banausic
adjective
formal
us /bəˈnɑː.sɪk/
uk /bəˈnɔː.sɪk/
relating to ordinary people or ordinary jobs that need technical skills rather than high levels of education:
They pursue banausic studies like bookkeeping and shopkeeping.
From the Editor - Local Culture 7.2: Work and Leisure | Jason Peters
Over and against the foregoing is the more insistent view of Berry, who speaks not for philosophy and philosophers, as Pieper did, but for farming and for farmers. In the title-track piece from The Art of Loading Brush Andy Catlett has a hired hand, a boy named Austin, who is a music major. He doesn’t know how to do anything with a mess except make it into a bigger mess (in this case loading brush). Andy tells him to go back to his college professors with the following message:maybe it’s possible to blow things up and burn things up and tear things down and throw things away and make music all at the same time. Some, it looks like, think you can. But: if you don’t have people, a lot of people, whose hands can make order of whatever they pick up, you’re going to be shit out of luck. And in my opinion, if the art of loading brush dies out, the art of making music finally will die out too. You tell your professors, when you go back, that you met an old provincial man, a leftover, who told you: No high culture without low culture, and when low culture is the scarcest it is the highest. Tell ’em that. And then tell me what they say.
Or, maybe, tell it to Pieper. This is no mere concession to the banausic arts. Here they get their full due.
