¶ Antipriorities
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Wherever you have actions you have reactions, and where there is priority there is antipriority. So in wartime you pick your primest young people to send to the front, helping to keep the front away from home and you are taking scarce resources and scarce brains that know how to work them and scarce tools with which they can be worked on high priority to make the weapons to implement your boys you send to the front. The idea of someone taking some of the high capability, high priority resources to make themselves a finer home during the war would be a most immoral kind of thought. … Any kinds of sheds that will keep the rain off will do. … We find that during wartime the housing, the environment controlling arts become the entipriority arts. … You find that you go from pretty nice looking spigots on the sink down to lead spigots. You find the housing arts in general are what we call the antipriority arts and this holds true in the peace time . . . because in peace time the high priority is with producing foods . . . tending the metabolic processes so you could survive. . . When winter was coming on and the harvest was in you have a little more time and you get some more wood and you run it over to the chimney so you get yourself covered in for the winter and that is more or less the fortuitous way in which housing gradually occurred.
