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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 8, 2025

I'll agree that there is some LARPing. Even worse, there's a lot of admiring the problem while only offering the most sketchy of solutions. Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option isn't much more than "Go to church a lot, only hang out with other people who go to your church, homeschool your kids." It isn't bad advice, but it also isn't some sort of systemic gameplan to RETVRN. There are also, yes, trads of all types who are still living in the matrix. I can remember a conversation with a young woman whom I befriended while temporarily living in DC. She was going through pre-marriage counseling with her local Catholic priest. She was bemoaing the fact that, on a questionnaire she had her fiancee had to fill out, it asked "who will be handling the household finances?" "Tollbooth!" She steamed, "What am I supposed to do? Just stand barefoot in the kitchen all day with a baby on my hip?"

Great comment. I especially like the above.

I do think in general the hypocrisy and frankly cowardice of the RETVRN people is what turns me off quite a bit, especially the big ones like Dreher. Also, their sheer lack of charity and love. I recently saw a post by Dreher after the school shooting that was titled something like "The Trannies are Coming to Kill Your Kids!"

Perhaps my disgust and frustration is more of an aesthetic stance, I do have to admit that folks are making good arguments here against my points that we must be liberal. I also just read the essay Christ and Nothing by David Bentley Hart, and I'll admit it shifted my view on the modern, liberal consensus. (being high openness can be exhausting, sometimes.)

So, in general what do you think is a more positive vision of merging traditional society with modern technology? To me there are obvious problems, and there's also the problem of the cratering of ecclesiastic authority. Which incidentally, I don't see as a theological problem as it has happened many times before. But how do we square these issues?