Andreas Vlach

“People will suddenly find obvious what is now evident to only a few: that the organization of the entire economy toward the ‘better’ life has become the major enemy of the good life.”

• Ivan Illich

“Bad times! Hard times!” — this is what people are saying. But let us live well, and the times shall be well. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times.

—St. Augustine of Hippo, a sermon on prayer during the slow collapse of the Roman Empire