The Craftsman versus the Industrial Complex

[Moski]

I'm not surprised. I suspect you don't have any idea what I've said.

Posts like this seem to come out of nowhere--no quotes...offending or otherwise...no references to actual words or concepts, no speaking to the actual discussion. Just "feelings."

There is a good discussion here...with little or no hostility or vitriol being generated...I'd prefer to keep it that way.

I was trying to be non-confrontational and speaking broadly.

I do know that things made in a factory...or from a mentality that buys into all the priorities of a factory...reduce our sense of connection. The products themselves almost universally have a sterile quality about them that is devoid of authenticity. And how could they not be? It's all copies, clones and ticky-tacky

What is that other than your "feelings" about "factory" goods. And I'm not looking to "make a connection" with my shoes, kilt or skivvies, nor am I looking for some level of "authenticity", whatever that means to you.

I don't know that everything made since the Industrial Revolution is crap.

I read the above to mean that Most if it is in your opinion.

I'm looking to wear something that is practical, fits into the place I've determined it should in my finances, that is to say affordable by my reckoning, and fits my life. I'm sure you make a wonderful product that anyone who can afford them would cherish. But affordable is not "an excuse" or a synonym for cheap (low quality). For those of us using the word referring to our own purchasing power it actually means what it says.


Oh yeah. The "Kilt Police" aren't real so they cant enforce anything. It's a term used for very real people who take it upon themselves to people who they think are dressed wrong, be it a style that offends their sensibilities or is "simply not done", material that "just isn't an acceptable substitute", or equating anything less than top of the range with junk (kind of an insult to several kiltmakers here who do make that "junk") , or simply beneath what they consider an acceptable standard.