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> It asks why there aren’t more places like St. Francisville—places where faith, family, and community form an integrated whole. > Dreher’s answer is that near
by juliangamble 9y ago
> It asks why there aren’t more places like St. Francisville—places where faith, family, and community form an integrated whole.
> Dreher’s answer is that nearly everything about the modern world conspires to eliminate them. He cites the Marxist sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who coined the term “liquid modernity” to describe a way of life in which “change is so rapid that no social institutions have time to solidify.” The most successful people nowadays are flexible and rootless; they can live anywhere and believe anything. Dreher thinks that liquid modernity is a more or less unstoppable force—in part because capitalism and technology are unstoppable.
- phreeza 9y ago> “I liken liquid modernity to the Great Flood of the Bible,” Dreher said,[...] “The flood cannot be turned back. The best we can do is construct arks within which we can ride it out, and by God’s grace make it across the dark sea of time to a future when we do find dry land again, and can start the rebuilding, reseeding, and renewal of the earth.” That reminded me of the convents in Neal Stephensons 'Anathem'.
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoExcept instead of useful math and pure science, it's supernatural religious stuff.
- phreeza 9y agoIndeed.
- philippnagel 9y agoAre there any scientific/tech-oriented intentional communities that are not universities?
- patrickg_zill 9y agoIn a way, a good hackerspace/makerspace can be.
- huxley 9y agoThey are rarer now than back in the 60s and 70s but PARC, Bell Labs, CERN etc might be good examples.