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The world we live in is one where the narratives and grand visions of the future have been eroded. Ascendant ideologies of the 20th century collect dust atop their graves as the order that century left us wanes and wobbles, struggling to keep itself together. Now, more than ever, it feels as if the future does not exist and we lie trapped in the shadows of the past. This malaise has spread to almost everything, we teach children as though the office jobs of the 60s abound, operate our industries as though the effects of climate change weren’t visible all around us. In short, since the 2000s, we have continued as though nothing different can happen Political change might be outside of our reach but that does not mean our mentalities, our ways of learning are also unchangeable right now. So we promoted and will continue to promote apprenticeships, knowledge sharing, alerting people to the many arts and forms of craftsmanship that were never shown to them. To show people works and art they could live by. That despite real struggle, not everything in life is condemned to be a slog. But word of mouth has a short reach, and so to ensure that these messages may reach those people, when they most need them:
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