New Polity

Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende

Aug 3, 2023

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Eric Brende

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Overcoming the Fear of Learning and Embracing our Own Powers

01:42

The Inefficiency of Raising Children in Agricultural Work

01:50

"Wealth in a society of counter productivity" Ivan Ellip

00:58

Consider a Life of Less Machine Use and More Leisure

01:34

Introduction

2min

The Importance of Technology in the Workplace

2min

The Pros and Cons of Catholicism

4min

The Importance of Time Efficiency

3min

The Problem With Automating Work

3min

The Benefits of Walking for Conversation

3min

The Importance of Easy Conversation and Pleasantry in Work

4min

The Importance of Having Many Hands

2min

The Threshing Day

2min

10.

How to Adapt the Amish Way of Life to a Non-Amish Context

2min

11.

The Importance of Being Catholic

2min

12.

The Importance of Integrating Work and Life at Home

4min

13.

The Importance of Working Remotely in the Country

4min

14.

The Paradox of Sustainable Urban Existence

4min

15.

The Limits of Living

2min

16.

The Fear of Our Own Power

3min

17.

Aristotle and the Hands

2min

18.

The Importance of Slavery

1min

19.

The Slope Learning Curve

5min

20.

The Future of Driving

3min

21.

The Importance of Being a Peasant

4min

22.

The Importance of Having a Backyard Furnace

4min

23.

The Use and Abuse of City Code

2min

24.

The Importance of Minimizing Machine Use and More Leisure

2min

25.

The Importance of Cost Analysis

3min

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Eric Brende is the author of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology, which describes his experience of living with the Amish. Marc and Eric discuss the role of technology, the aesthetic of homesteading versus urbanism, and how to approach mechanized life.

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New Polity

Life Without Technology w/ Author Eric Brende

Episode guests

Overcoming the Fear of Learning and Embracing our Own Powers

The Inefficiency of Raising Children in Agricultural Work

"Wealth in a society of counter productivity" Ivan Ellip

Consider a Life of Less Machine Use and More Leisure

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