JMG on Ouros Podcast

[ecosophia]

It's been a busy few weeks for podcasts, and here's another one. I'm on the Ouros Podcast with host Isaac, talking about spirituality and the decline and fall of industrial civilization. Ouros is the new kid on the block when it comes to collapsitarian podcasts -- I was on the eighth show ever -- but it's shaping up to be an interesting venue, exploring the decline and fall of industrial civilization from a conservative standpoint.. You can listen to the conversation here, and check out the host's Substack essays here. 

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Just a thought...

[(Anonymous)]

I really appreciate this conversation that you had. I will note that although I have never seen much community at all in the suburbia contexts I grew up in, I have noticed a lot more of it in the rural, fly over area that I now live in. I am hoping that the other poor, religious areas of the country still have the sort of community you two were talking about near the end of this conversation.

Re: Just a thought...

[ecosophia]

Suburbia's a fascinating place, in a certain bleak sense. (I grew up there too.) What intrigues me about it is that it's the opposite of community, but it's also the opposite of individualism. People there go through lives of strict conformism in isolation from one another. Go almost anywhere else and you'll find both more community and more individualism!

Re: Just a thought...

[(Anonymous)]

Not the OP, but I grew up in suburbia as well, and have lived in a city and rural areas since, an suburbia manages to combine the worst of both, with none of the redeeming features of either. It's incredible that so many people want to live that way....

Re: Just a thought...

[ecosophia]

I don't get it either -- and that's exactly the way I've thought of the suburbs since childhood: the worst features of rural and urban life, with none of the advantages.