RE: A tough question...or is it?

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@umd.edu>]

On Mon, July 29, 2013 2:47 pm, dale mcinnes wrote:
> Augusto ..
>
> Palaeontology IS a hobby .. albeit .. a professional hobby
> run by professionally skilled researchers, artists, illustrators,
> technicians. Technically .. any field that does not stand on its
> own [financially or management wise] and needs to be propped up by
> gov't mamagement/funding .. IS a hobby.
>
I'm switching this around:

Any fully sustainable task such as business is just routine maintenance
for society. Science, art, and so forth ARE the human condition: they are
what makes living worthwhile (rather than simple persistence for the sake
of persistence).

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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