Were you talking about (more like trying to talk about; with little success) Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P.'s Catholic Land Movement in this video? It seems to me that G.K. Chesterton learned most of what he knew of Thomism; before actually reading Aquinas in person; from Fr. McNabb. Chesterton's DISTRIBUTIVISM sounds like something that Fr. McNabb also taught him.
But McNabb was talking about people who knew how to shear sheep, slop pigs and plow fields [etc. etc.], but had come to the cities for "better lives". Yet, when they came to cities, they found gin and other forms of licentiousness rather than the good jobs or better lives they had left "the land" to find in towns or cities. Or if they got work it was tedious, boring and repetitious as well as dangerous in early factories.
McNabb's dates are 1868 to 1943. So he was born 20 years after the end of the 1st wave of industrialization [steam power] and hit his flourishing period [circa1908] during the 2nd wave, which included electrification. Back to the land was fairly plausible when he was in his 40-es, given that people were still moving into cities in literal droves, but did have country experience. But today??? Most of us are born in cities. You can't "go back to the land", when you never lived on the land. You can go there, like some hippies did in the 1960-es. But there is a lot of drudgery in "thriving" there.
Anyway, I called you 3 city - slickers, "mice", at the YouTube video site, while you did have one man among you who lives on a 43 acre cattle ranch and seems to be rich from YouTube subscriptions to his strong man video productions. I considered 3 of you 4 people to be metaphorical "mice" because you don't seem to be able to distinguish your actual civil servants from governors/rulers or what Tim called "the government". Being apparently unable to distinguish servants from governors/rulers makes you "mice", rather than "men" --- let alone Catholic Men --- in my arguably unwelcome opinion.
You seem to be close to Rod Dreher's "Benedict Option", although Dreher would arguably describe you people as "Crunchy Cons" if you actually decided to go "back to the land". I read his Benedict Option, but not the "Crunchy Cons" theses. Benedict's Rule is good, provided that you want to take a vow of stability and pray 6 hours, work 6 hours, study 6 hours and (do toiletries then) sleep 6 hours. There doesn't seem to be time for mixed martial arts in that regimen.
At any rate, keep up the strangely-American thinking. Canadians find it amusing --- almost as interesting as American movies.
Were you talking about (more like trying to talk about; with little success) Fr. Vincent McNabb O.P.'s Catholic Land Movement in this video? It seems to me that G.K. Chesterton learned most of what he knew of Thomism; before actually reading Aquinas in person; from Fr. McNabb. Chesterton's DISTRIBUTIVISM sounds like something that Fr. McNabb also taught him.
But McNabb was talking about people who knew how to shear sheep, slop pigs and plow fields [etc. etc.], but had come to the cities for "better lives". Yet, when they came to cities, they found gin and other forms of licentiousness rather than the good jobs or better lives they had left "the land" to find in towns or cities. Or if they got work it was tedious, boring and repetitious as well as dangerous in early factories.
McNabb's dates are 1868 to 1943. So he was born 20 years after the end of the 1st wave of industrialization [steam power] and hit his flourishing period [circa1908] during the 2nd wave, which included electrification. Back to the land was fairly plausible when he was in his 40-es, given that people were still moving into cities in literal droves, but did have country experience. But today??? Most of us are born in cities. You can't "go back to the land", when you never lived on the land. You can go there, like some hippies did in the 1960-es. But there is a lot of drudgery in "thriving" there.
Anyway, I called you 3 city - slickers, "mice", at the YouTube video site, while you did have one man among you who lives on a 43 acre cattle ranch and seems to be rich from YouTube subscriptions to his strong man video productions. I considered 3 of you 4 people to be metaphorical "mice" because you don't seem to be able to distinguish your actual civil servants from governors/rulers or what Tim called "the government". Being apparently unable to distinguish servants from governors/rulers makes you "mice", rather than "men" --- let alone Catholic Men --- in my arguably unwelcome opinion.
You seem to be close to Rod Dreher's "Benedict Option", although Dreher would arguably describe you people as "Crunchy Cons" if you actually decided to go "back to the land". I read his Benedict Option, but not the "Crunchy Cons" theses. Benedict's Rule is good, provided that you want to take a vow of stability and pray 6 hours, work 6 hours, study 6 hours and (do toiletries then) sleep 6 hours. There doesn't seem to be time for mixed martial arts in that regimen.
At any rate, keep up the strangely-American thinking. Canadians find it amusing --- almost as interesting as American movies.
Kevin