{"id":5686,"date":"2017-03-15T06:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T06:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/the-benedict-option\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T06:18:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T06:18:56","slug":"the-benedict-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/15\/the-benedict-option\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benedict Option"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rod Dreher interviewed<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related: Rod Dreher on Critics of the Benedict Option<\/a>. Excerpt:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suppose you and yours join a quasi-monastic community out in the middle of nowhere where you live more or less 'off the grid,' home-school your kids, try to keep alive and transmit our Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman traditions, all in keeping with that marvellous admonition of Goethe in Faust<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Was du ererbt von deinen V\u00e4tern hast,<\/em><\/span>
erwirb es, um es zu besitzen!<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
 <\/span><\/div>\n
What from your fathers you  received as heir,<\/span><\/div>\n
Acquire if  you would possess it. (tr. W. Kaufmann)<\/span><\/div>\n

So now you are out in the desert or the forest or in some isolated place free of the toxic influences of a society in collapse.  The problem is that you are now a very easy target for the fascists of the Left.  You and yours are all in one place, far away from the rest of society and its infrastructure.  All the fascists have to do is trump up some charges, of child-abuse, of gun violations, whatever.  The rest of society considers you kooks and benighted bigots and religious fanatics and won't be bothered if you are wiped off the face of the earth.  You might go the way of the Branch Davidians.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this an alarmist scenario?  I hope it is<\/em>.  But the way things are going, one ought to give careful thought to one's various withdrawal options. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nRelated articles<\/legend>\n
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<\/a>SCOTUS and Benedict<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/a>Rod Dreher on Critics of the Benedict Option<\/a><\/div>\n
<\/a>Waiting for St. Benedict. Various Withdrawal Options<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rod Dreher interviewed. Related: Rod Dreher on Critics of the Benedict Option. Excerpt: Suppose you and yours join a quasi-monastic community out in the middle of nowhere where you live more or less 'off the grid,' home-school your kids, try to keep alive and transmit our Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman traditions, all in keeping with that … Continue reading “The Benedict Option”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monks-and-monasticism","category-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}