Speaking of Rod Dreher, I picked up his Crunchy Cons from the library yesterday. I’ve been meaning to read it for a while. Rod and I exchanged a couple of e-mails about it before it was published, so despite the fact that it was prior to my sudden agrarian epiphany I had some interest going [...]
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Crunchy Conservatism
Posted in Common Sense, Culture, Distributism, Restoration, The Rural Solution on June 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Some Words of Advice (and Some Questions)
Posted in Distributism, Food, Practical Steps, The Rural Solution on May 12, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Jeff Culbreath, the practical counterpart to my idealism, has a post today about how to get started on rural living. He begins by addressing the notion of self-sufficiency:
A note on “self-sufficiency”. Much of the literature seems to emphasize “self-sufficiency” and economic independence – especially “food independence” – to an extent that is, in my opinion, [...]
The ChesterBelloc Mandate
Posted in Distributism on May 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am a neophyte when it comes to distributism; I find that what I have heard or read about its precepts and purposes is often compelling and always intriguing.
I own (but have not read in their entirety) The Servile State and An Essay on the Restoration of Property, which I understand to be Belloc’s most [...]
The Scourge of Jobs
Posted in Distributism, The Rural Solution on May 7, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Bill Powell (who is alive, by the way) was an acquaintance of mine in college. I owe him the singular gratitude of having been the butt of a running joke (well, not so much me as the character I played, who was in fact me only written by someone else) in a television show quizically [...]
