We (and many other workers in Hong Kong and Macao) have been asked to self-quarantine at home due to the Wuhan virus epidemic, until further notice. That was the trigger for this videohttps://youtu.be/pKNY5TISzNk
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Replying to @DGozli @JohannesAchill
I used to love MacIntyre, esp. his arguments about tradition. In an increasingly globalised age defined by tech, though, do such living traditions and actual communities still exist across the board? In my own life inflected by Protestant Americanism, I find no direct evidence.
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Replying to @andrewjtaggart @JohannesAchill
Our ways of being together has changed, but we are still together. More distant, more concerned and occupied with image-building, e.g., sending our avatars (or YouTube personae) to talk on our behalves, but we still have roots and connections - maybe less visible (?)
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Replying to @DGozli @JohannesAchill
Then maybe we are, or I am, getting tripped up on "communities" and "traditions." Illich, for instance, was against "development" because he thought there was something crucial to "vernacular" forms of life. You can still find such communities in rural Costa Rica, say.
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For my part, I've grown up in an increasingly technological and Total Work-ized world marked by atomization, movements from country to city, etc. I think we know the arguments. It feels as if the only option, since I'm not a Catholic living in Italy (e.g.), is to make community.
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This is where
@MonasticAcademy seems to provide me with one potentially appealing model. Making rather than discovering community and tradition seems, unless I'm wrong, to be thrust upon many of us.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
I agree with you. Our focus seems to be on different parts of the same whole. I am thinking more about the building material (existing threads of tradition), while you are referring to what we do with the material.
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