Keeping The Furious Opposites

Tools and Truths

I keep two books on my desk: Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations and John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. Neither the past nor the potential future is enough to tell us how to live well in 2026.

Here we work to reject the false choice between digital natives and monastics. The trad/Luddite crowd says one thing and the e/acc techno-optimists dream up another. But humans need something more challenging: to hold tension between opposing theories.

GK Chesterton said:

“Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.”

We’re here to keep the furious opposites. To explore AI and classical education. We’ll look at some of the obvious problems (yes parents, it’s the phones!) and some of the overlooked cultural and generational changes (maybe it’s not just the phones!) that have our entire world asking what comes next.

Start here if you want to embrace technology without surrendering your humanity.

The Furious Opposites is an exploration of what it means to be human in the 21st century.

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