Bruce, I don’t disagree with you. Can I be a moderate too?
I am not advocating a “withdrawal” from society. Never have. And I doubt anyone can find anything in what I’ve said to that effect. I have advocated, as you put it, working with what we have where we are to rebuild “communities that rely as little as possible on faceless ‘mechanisms’ and as much as possible on actual people.”
It looks like we posted at the same time, but as I hope is apparent below, my concern with the false dichotomy between “withdrawal” and “engagement” is that it leads to all kinds of mistakes made by those who would accept the dichotomy and who do not wish to be known as evil world renouncers. The point is to think more carefully through the problems facing us and shift, reimagine, and reconsolidate the ground of our engagement.
