Our daily lives are so much less physical than they would have been a generation or two ago. Not just us – most people in this country, at this juncture in history. Hardly any of us do real jobs any more – I mean hard physical labour. We don’t get a grip on the world – a hard, sweaty, actual grip on it. We don’t feel it. I’m not trying to demean the work any of us does but it’s not how it was fifty or even thirty years ago.’
