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Reading Technological Society right now and I had a minor thought after reading some things about our ever present pursuit of efficiency. Is anxiety a cultural phenomena due to the same efficiency? Instead of enjoying idle time we constantly have to think to figure or solve out problems, because it would be a waste of time to do otherwise. This is essentially my thought when I read Power of Now when I was younger I thought it was a waste of time to not think constantly.
Is living in the present the way to live and how does problem solving or coming up with novel ideas fit into this? More often than not I hear about great thinkers of times past had eureka moments either going for walks or after a nights sleep. My question is were they constantly ruminating or were they detached with a time and place for focus and others for being more present and aware.
Alternatively they were all neurotics who’s entire focus was on their subject(s) so they had eureka moments because they were constantly in that mind space?

>>17633294
This is a harder read than Uncle Ted's works but it's well made

>>13471036
Read Jacques Ellul
>>13469824 this Gentlemen was very much inspired by Ellul's thought.

Charles Taylor and Wendell Berry are more modern examples of this type of thought.

Liberal promotion of pluralism, tolerance and egalitarianism, etc, are at odds with real community because they disregard the importance of place and local culture.
Any "smoothing out" of culture is a caricature of the living tissue of life, and is necessarily totalitarian. That does not mean that these ideas themselves are a problem, just the that obsession with their promotion is.
If a community is egalitarian, pluralistic, etc., that is fine. If a community is not egalitarian, pluralistic, etc., then that is fine as well.

I consider the Amish and other groups like them to be the closest possible human societies can get to "Anarchism":
Larger families and stronger community ties can very easily decrease dependency on the state and the market.
Such a community may grow food in a family farm, hunt for food, and, depending on the interdependence of the community, their daily needs from cooking oils, to plates, to pottery, to soap are often made at home as well. There is still "an economy" but often one that is barter based or socialist in the pre-socialist (or in a certain anarchist) sense of the word: mediated by direct face-to-face social tit-for-tat between neighbors and friends, none of this mediated by currency

Christian Anarchism is the only form of Anarchism that isn't ephemeral; all other forms of Anarchism (if they have existed at all) were short lived.
An economically self-sufficient village with close social relationships and a barter economy doesn't have to be Christian, it's just that this is the prevailing religion in the West. I don't think Anarchism can last very long at all without a religious component.

>>13471036
Read Jacques Ellul
>>13469824 this Gentlemen was very much inspired by Ellul's thought.

Charles Taylor and Wendell Berry are more modern examples of this type of thought.

Liberal promotion of pluralism, tolerance and egalitarianism, etc, are at odds with real community because they disregard the importance of place and local culture.
Any "smoothing out" of culture is a caricature of the living tissue of life, and is necessarily totalitarian. That does not mean that these ideas themselves are a problem, just the that obsession with their promotion is.
If a community is egalitarian, pluralistic, etc., that is fine. If a community is not egalitarian, pluralistic, etc., then that is fine as well.

I consider the Amish and other groups like them to be the closest possible human societies can get to "Anarchism":
Larger families and stronger community ties can very easily decrease dependency on the state and the market.
Such a community may grow food in a family farm, hunt for food, and, depending on the interdependence of the community, their daily needs from cooking oils, to plates, to pottery, to soap are often made at home as well. There is still "an economy" but often one that is barter based or socialist in the pre-socialist (or in a certain anarchist) sense of the word: mediated by direct face-to-face social tit-for-tat between neighbors and friends, none of this mediated by currency

Christian Anarchism is the only form of Anarchism that isn't ephemeral; all other forms of Anarchism (if they have existed at all) were short lived.
An economically self-sufficient village with close social relationships and a barter economy doesn't have to be Christian, it's just that this is the prevailing religion in the West. I don't think Anarchism can last very long at all without a religious component.