A lot of fascinating things to read, even if just to understand the history

it’s a good reminder to check him out

I think he argued one big technological development of sorts was the development of “technique”, which can in the extreme really regiment a person’s activity into defined actions

yeah I’ve heard of some things like permaculture and no till agricultural methods that make me wonder how productive low tech approaches could be; on the other extreme are hydroponics / aeroponics systems in controlled environments. It seems like we could probably experiment and find more ways to do things than our current system does things

“Amish but Catholic”

Could be kind of, that sounds like a fair approximate characterization, I don’t know what the main differences are in technological acceptance versus religious differences

In principle Catholics don’t seem too anti-technology; this group was more against industrialization and its effects, like I’m not sure they’d be against small industrial home factories whereas I imagine Amish would be

Like Amish I think go to pains to avoid things like electricity and use gas contraptions instead, I don’t think those who identify with the “Catholic Land Movement” would necessarily be against using electricity, or maybe not for the same reasons

The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe

sometimes freedom is preferred when there are incentives towards it