Hey ,You've probably been thinking about this question for months.Your child is getting older. Their friends are starting to get phones. And you feel this quiet pressure building...as if the decision is being made for you whether you're ready or not....
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈ"In an age of artificial intelligence, the scarce resource is human depth: attention, memory, patience, sustained effort. These are precisely the capacities that early smartphone adoption destroys."~ Dr. Herman Middleton----...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈβThe antidote to this is to dig down to those foundations and begin the work of repair. We are going to have to learn to be adults again; to get our feet back on the ground, to rebuild families and communities, to learn agai...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈ βIf we can see what it [the Machine] is, we have a duty to speak the words to those who do not yet see, all the while struggling to remain human.β~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 317------------------------------...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈβThis, in practical terms is, the slow, necessary, sometimes boring work to which I suspect people in our place and time are being called: to build new things out on the margins. Not to exhaust our souls engaging in a daily...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈ βOf course we still have to contend, as the desert fathers had to, with the forms of evil endemic to the fallen human state. But, as a consequence of choices made by individuals and increasingly tolerated when not actively...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈ βTo those who ask, βWhat can I actually do?β, he [E. F. Schumacher] said, the answer was βas simple as it is disconcerting: we can each of us work to put our own inner house in order. The guidance we need for this work cann...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈβIf we can see what it [the Machine] is, we have a duty to speak the words to those who do not yet see, all the while struggling to remain human.β~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 317--------------------------------...
π° Down The Rabbit Hole π³οΈ β[S]ocieties built around a notion of the sacred have an immunity to the gravity of the purely material.β ~ Paul Kingsnorth, Against The Machine, p. 234---------------------------------------LIVESTREAM AT 7:30PM (EST) TONIG...