GM. The leaf blower is the honest emblem of an age that measures effort by how visible it is more than by what it resolves.
It displaces a problem without solving it, consumes energy in the process, and announces itself loudly enough that no one doubts work is being done. People and institutions alike learn to prefer this kind of labor, because motion is easy to observe and resolution is easy to overlook. So finishing something has become the rarer skill, precisely because nobody hears you doing it.
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