Maintenance Man
Maintenance is the soul of true wealth.
Whether riches become a burden or a boon depends largely upon a person's relationship to maintenance, their systems of maintenance, their attention on maintenance.
Material riches follow right-relationship to maintenance.
Material riches flee unstable relationship to maintenance.
Maintenance is essential to integrity.
And maintenance is soft cock energy. It's not the hard cock of creation and progress and productivity, it's the soft cock of showing up every day to tend to the minutia of the material.
Maintenance honors entropy, reveres her and notices her, accounts for her and accommodates her.
Maintenance is how a man keeps what he worked so hard to build, and sadly there are many men we equip only with the hard-work, hard cock building skills and not with the light-work, soft cock maintenance skills. That means those men work hard all their lives and have little ease or enjoyment to show for that hard work.
The maintenance man is not a hero. If he's doing his job, he's going entirely unnoticed. His success is in being taken for granted, when all the things simply proceed as "they should."
Though the reality of entropy says things we build *actually* should descend into chaos, the masculine maintenance man preserves our delusion about the endurance of structures, order, and progress. The lights stay on, the bridge holds cars, the trains arrive on a schedule, the internet box shows me something new.
Maintenance. Most of it provided by MEN. Literal men, doing literal actions, staving off and accounting for entropy.
This is the make or break of wealth in our personal lives and in our cultural landscape. Maintenance determines how much you get to HAVE.