Comment by zehaeva
10 hours ago
I do agree with you over all, but I am not certain it's outside the capacity of modern society. You only need to look at the group in France[0] where they are building a medieval castle using only period appropriate tools and techniques. It is more of a research project than an act of devotion, but I think it demonstrates that we are still capable of such acts.
We don't lack the ability. We lack the time/energy/money (these are all the same thing!).
And yet a bunch of volunteers have spent nearly 30 years now building a castle.
There is no universal. The existence of exceptions in no way says anything about anyone else.
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We have time/energy/money in amounts heretofore not available to us. It's a question of motivation and the culture that produces it. If society's highest common good and life's highest aspirations are materialistic and consumerist, then where does something like this fit in? What for? It becomes a nice curiosity and a tourist stop at best and that's not much much of a motive.
No, we prefer to spend all our time/energy/money on lesser things.
That is your personal judgement that those things are lesser. I reserve the right to disagree.
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