1. I suspect @Tinkzorg is correct here. As long as one looks at life through the lens of the highly politicized and technologized dominant striver culture, which many/most on the right are tied into due to their commitment to free market capitalism this will be the case.
2. But as one gets outside of this into Christian communities that are partially removed from this (getting fully out of the “the system” is impossible), you see a very different picture. Because financial prosperity is not the end all and be all, nor is max enjoying the…
3. …pleasures and rewards of the meritocracy, you are free to structure your lives differently. In the religious community of which I am a part, we have people whose marriages stay together, they have 3+ kids, they live in small houses that don’t get fancy renovations…
4. …they vacation on the cheap (camping and the like), their kids wear second hand and hand me down clothes so they can send these 3+ kids to Christian schools.
Because these commitments predate the meritocracy they will find a way to persist during its demise.
Because these commitments predate the meritocracy they will find a way to persist during its demise.
5. People in my community will adapt and make other sacrifices because their faith is generally more important than the outward enjoyments of material prosperity. And while we are not immune to being sidetracked by the rewards of the system, many of us are content.
6. We live outside the elite circles of movers and shakers and many are tied to tangible realities like farms and the trades.
I sense that as the current system suffers we will suffer, but we have a strength in God and each other that I am of the mind that what emerges after…
I sense that as the current system suffers we will suffer, but we have a strength in God and each other that I am of the mind that what emerges after…
7. …will emerge out of Christian communities like mine and others that are similar.
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