the Benedict Option is a call to undertaking the long and patient work of reclaiming the real world from the artifice, alienation, and atomization of modern life. It is a way of seeing the world and of living in the world that undermines modernity’s big lie: that humans are nothing more than ghosts in a machine, and we are free to adjust its settings in any way we like. “It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines,” writes Wendell Berry. Let’s take our stand on the side of
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