Wise Words from Industrialist Leader Ford?!!?
In his biography, My Life & Work, Henry Ford, he who gave us the assembly-line automobile, says: “If we live in smaller communities where the tension of living is not so high, and where the products of fields and gardens can be had without the interference of so many profiteers, there will be little poverty or unrest” [p.88]
Even so! He who is revered as a sort of god by the citizens of Aldous Huxley’s A Brave New World goes on to note that:
“If a man is in constant fear of the industrial situation, he ought to change his life so as not to be dependent upon it. There is always the land, and fewer people are on the land now than ever before. If a man lives in fear of an employer’s favour changing towards him, he ought to extricate himself from dependence on any employer. He can become his own boss”. [p.320]
These excerpts from Ford were quoted in the 22 Jan 1927 issue of G.K.’s Weekly, the premiere periodical for folk of discerning taste, apart from our own, of course. They were quoted under the heading of “Saul Among the Prophets.” A fitting title indeed, good sirs, a fitting title indeed!
