Why is Shakespeare so important?
Why have his words stood the test of time? (And I’m not sold on Shakespeare really being Shakespeare, just so you know…) And how come we all need to know his name, but not the name of John Daniel’s father who spent his whole life trying to change the world for the common man, trying to make the workplace safer and the workday shorter. Shouldn’t we know his name? Why Shakespeare and not Franz Daniel? For the record my father was a waste water treatment supervisor. He monitored sewage, he treated it, he worried about it, he took classes to better understand it. He learned the job in the air force and then spent almost forty years doing it for a living. He didn’t like his job, but it was a valuable one to the people who depended on him to do it right. It was important to the people who needed his paycheck. He had two children, one is a design engineer and one is a writer. Who can tell me what the more important job was? Who can tell me what name should be remembered? John Daniel has mad
