Keeping The Furious Opposites

Evolving Tools. Eternal Truths.

I keep two books on my desk: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations and John Scalzi’s sci-fi bonanza Old Man’s War. Neither the past nor the potential future is enough to tell us how to live well in 2025.

Here we reject the false choice between digital natives and monastics. The trad/Luddite crowd says one thing and the e/acc techno-optimists dream up another. But humans need something more challenging: to hold the tension of opposing truths.

In the words of GK Chesterton:

“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”

We’re here to keep the furious opposites. To explore both AI and classical education. We’ll look at some of the obvious problems (yes parents, it’s the phones!) and some of the overlooked cultural and generational changes (maybe it’s not just the phones!) that have our entire world in a predicament.

If you want to keep both opposites furious — to embrace technology without surrendering your humanity — start here.

Brains Are Plastic is an exploration of what it means to be human in the 21st century.

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