7.02: People Who Don’t Want To Do Things

Any positive vision of the future must contend with people who like the current way of doing things. We discuss personal and communal liturgies as potential ways to address the issue.

• John Deere discussion in 6.13
• $200M lobbying from oil companies
• 43 Democrats not even voting on a thing they support
• $200M in lobbying from oil companies
• Jake Meador’s articles:
  • “Whose Reaganism? Which Republicanism?” (Mere Orthodoxy)
  • “America’s Farming Crisis, Laid Bare by Midwest Floods” (Christianity Today)
• “A Community Environmental Project”, Andrew “Spence” Spencer
• Star Wars: Vision of the Future, Timothy Zahn
• The church history podcast Stephen keeps mentioning: Communio Sanctorum

• ”Spring” by Teen Daze
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.

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