“Here’s how to start with the anti-political politics of the Benedict option. Secede culturally from the mainstream. Turn off the television. Put the smartphones away. Read books. Play games. Make music. Feast with your neighbors. It is not enough to avoid what is bad; you must also embrace what is good. Start a church or a group within your church. Open a classical Christian school or join and strengthen one that exists. Plant a garden and participate in a local farmers market. Teach kids how to play music and start a band. Join the volunteer fire department.” p98
“Southern Baptist literary critic Ralph Woods contends that the church’s task today is “not to create a counter-culture, so much as a new culture based on one so ancient and nearly forgotten that it looks freshly minted”” p105
“Only beautiful things lead us out to join the world beyond our heads” - Matthew Crawford quoted on page 117
“Barbarians are people without historical memory. Barbarism is the real meaning of radical contemporaneity. Released from all authoritative pasts, we progress towards barbarism, not away from it” Phillip Rieff quoted on page 154