“Attempts to resist modern life in practical ways are often derided as LARPing or live-action role playing—that one’s anti-modernity is superficial, imaginary, and made possible by modernity itself. There is some element of truth to this. Modern homesteading, for example, often requires supplemental income from modern sources. But many of the things ridiculed as LARPing are simply good choices for living well in this world. A woman who makes food from scratch from her own garden is not only offering her family healthy options but also exercising praiseworthy skills and passing those skills on to her children. The variety of skills that our ancestors mastered to survive are now unnecessary and obsolete, and the products of these skills are readily available in stores. But certainly something important for living well has been lost as a result, as we’ve lost the ability to make and fix things for ourselves and to intimately bring something from the soil to the table. LARPing is, in the best sense mastering inefficient and old skills and practices that attune one to the natural world, that break you free in part from the modern world.” – Stephen Wolfe, The Case For Christian Nationalism
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