Tag: culture

  • Rejecting Isolation

    Rejecting Isolation

    Despite increasing urbanization in the modern world, society is more isolated than ever. In my own country of residence (Japan), the statistics are disheartening. Government estimates indicate over one million hikikomori, a Japanese word which refers to social recluses who very rarely have contact with other humans face-to-face. Meanwhile, more elderly people are dying alone…

  • Joseph Minich On Generous Hospitality

    Joseph Minich On Generous Hospitality

    “Particularly difficult in our own context, is the commitment to a generous hospitality – a difficult-to-achieve lifestyle that leaves space for others to interfere and that contains the boldness to interfere in the lives of others. These sorts of encounters are artificially replaced in our era by work relationships, social media, and so on. But…

  • The Myth Of Unending Progress

    The Myth Of Unending Progress

    The last 100 years have seen more technological, medical, and scientific advancements than probably all of the prior centuries of human civilization combined. In less than 150 years, we went from most people traveling on animals to being able to fly thousands of people across the oceans each day and even land people on the…