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Matt Fradd is helping Fr. Jason rescue orphans in Urkaine. Find out more here and financially support the mission. https://pintswithaquinas.com/ukraine Tiredness and Hyperactivity/Hyperpassivity. I-tiredness vs. we-tiredness. I am not tired “of you” but “with you.” God sanctifies space: Garden of Eden. God sanctifies time: Sabbath rest. Sabbath is the rest from work, that then enables us to offer worship. Lent: glorified self-improvement vs charity towards our neighbor. Hans Urs von Balthasar (Heart of the World): Obedience to the church means we do it NOW, within the framework of the Church. Sabbath day is a day of not-to, a day free of all in-order-to. But you have to cut off work. Saturday night is crucial for Sunday mornings’ grace. Vespers. Lord’s Day. etc. “God’s paradise is a utilitarian’s Hell.” Shared Prayer, Mission, Fellowship, Learning. From this shared life, stuff will just start. It will just start happening. You don’t need anything else other than time and regularity. So can you create a space where these things just happen and when they do happen, can you cultivate these things? Luke’s one thing he would change about his Young Adult Ministry: the Core Team happened and it was “You need to just be friends and pray together.” Fellowship, friendship, needs to precede Mission. Mission brings us together, as a friendship rooted in a common good. But if the communion doesn’t happen, if friendships are not actually made, then the mission becomes a driver to hyperactivity and loses its connection to actual mission. It’s externalized because it hasn’t made friends yet. Sometimes it fails because of God. Sometimes it fails because of us. Sponsored By:THESIS: To anyone that’s struggling with focus, energy, or motivation - it’s not you, it’s your brain! Thesis helps you take control of your mind to create habits that last and get a little help if you need a boost.The Catholic Card Game: Play a fun, Lent-themed Escape Game experience at home TONIGHT from the makers of the Catholic Card Game and Council at Daybreak! 12 pages of puzzles, riddles, and clues to solve at a Novice and Expert level (you get both). Download it today!BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Executive Coach Solutions: Executive Coach Solutions is a leadership consulting firm that brings creativity and strength-based training to the art of business management.Support Catching FoxesLinks:USA vs. Mexico 2013 WCQ - Game Over at Azteca (Beer Showers) - YouTube — A shot of the USMNT fans as we prepared to leave Azteca Stadium for the USA vs. Mexico World Cup Qualifier on March 26th, 2013 after a 0-0 result. The Mexican fans were not too happy with that result and started their beer attack. Gomer and Luke are creating Catching Foxes | Patreon — Support the show!The Burnout Society: Han, Byung-Chul: 9780804795098: Amazon.com: Books — Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual. Rather than improving life, multitasking, "user-friendly" technology, and the culture of convenience are producing disorders that range from depression to attention deficit disorder to borderline personality disorder. Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.

Pre-gaming topics Gomer: Neighbors are so freaking frustrating right now with their drugs and cussing in front of my kids, with their VH1 and rap music and fast cars! Luke: You know, Gomer, there is a Rent Crisis going on in a America and you just demonized renters. (war ensues) Luke's real pre-game topic: The Multiverse of Madness: we’re hair-metal and grunge is on its way. Main Topic When our economy corrupts our soulsSponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Executive Coach Solutions: Executive Coach Solutions is a leadership consulting firm that brings creativity and strength-based training to the art of business management.Athletic Greens: Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/FOXES.The Catholic Card Game: Play a fun, Lent-themed Escape Game experience at home TONIGHT from the makers of the Catholic Card Game and Council at Daybreak! 12 pages of puzzles, riddles, and clues to solve at a Novice and Expert level (you get both). Download it today!Support Catching FoxesLinks:Blindside - Silence - YouTube

Books Gomer bought Life out of Death: Meditations on the Paschal Mystery, by Balthasar Person To Person: friendship and love in the life and theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, by John S. Bonnici Ever Ancient, Ever New: Why Younger Generations are Embracing Traditional Catholicism, Ed. David Dashiell (CF Fan book!) The Bible and the Liturgy, Jean Danielou, SJ The Mass: The Presence of the Sacrifice of the Cross, Charles Journet Luke Processes the Super Bowl Loss Two Truths and Lie about Luke’s overreactions Cincinnati as a city was just happy for a month (not so much now) Ten-Minute Topics What are your thoughts about the new Lord of the Rings storyline? How are the fitness and reading goals? Graduate and professional school students and faith life? Winter Olympics? Ya watchin’? Chinese Communists ruin everything! What is the appropriate angst one should feel towards the once-in-a-lifetime societal failures happening every 8 years? Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!Executive Coach Solutions: Executive Coach Solutions is a leadership consulting firm that brings creativity and strength-based training to the art of business management.Athletic Greens: Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/FOXES.Support Catching FoxesLinks:8 Seconds | Full Movie Preview | Warner Bros. Entertainment - YouTube — This riveting drama based on the life of Rodeo World Champion Lane Frost (Luke Perry) tells the story of his dreams, ambition, perseverance, and sacrifice that lead to an Oklahoma boy's meteoric rise to fame as a champion bull-rider before his rough and tumble life is tragically cut short.Article: On Lord of the Rings and John Gruber — One of my favourite quotes about cinema is from Kubrick, and I found it via Gruber, who posted it on Daring Fireball: "The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good." Apparently, though, the affection of Lord of the Rings movie fans doesn’t really count. As they enter a chat about films, Dan mentions Gruber’s tweet describing the films as shit.The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power – Teaser Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube — Amazon Studios’ forthcoming series brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth's history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings...Houston Rodeo Concert Lineup — Each night, once the Rodeo dust settles, a superstar takes the stage to entertain the crowds. The star entertainers begin performing after the last rodeo event is completed each evening and the stage is set.Antiwar.comRothbard: Essentials of Money and Inflation | Mises Wire — New money injected into the economy has an inevitable ripple effect; early receivers of the new money spend more and bid up prices, while later receivers or those on fixed incomes find the prices of the goods they must buy unaccountably rising, while their own incomes lag behind or remain the same. Monetary inflation, in other words, not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation of the late receivers by the counterfeiters themselves and by the other early receivers. Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.

Opening Conversations YouTube Channel: Clean My Space video channel Health Segment: Working Out and our Apple Watches Coworkers who listen, Coworkers who go out of their way to tell me they don’t listen. And College Buddies, too! Questions from the Patrons! ### Aaron: Best super bowl food and what will Luke be drinking as he cheers on his Bengals? Carey Dip: Cream Cheese, diced sweet onions, diced kosher dill pickles, pickle juice to taste, sit overnight. It’ll thicken overnight. Sean: If you could destroy one social media platform in order to help humanity, which would it be? Ryan: I struggle with how to write this one so I will do the best I can... I know you have talked about it but it is really coming out, even more so because of COVID and is moving faster. I believe it is the weaponization of calling things you don't agree with as dis- or mis- information. How does this all end?... Alycia: Can someone please explain this synod on synodality? I don’t understand what we (The whole Church) are doing… Michael: Ideas on how a meeting about meetings is actually impactful to the church and if maybe the church should focus less on community/world impact and more on feeding its congregation that’s starving? Thomas: What are you guys reading right now?Sponsored By:THESIS: To anyone that’s struggling with focus, energy, or motivation - it’s not you, it’s your brain! Thesis helps you take control of your mind to create habits that last and get a little help if you need a boost.Catholic Match: Live your vocation! Go to CatholicMatch.com and put "Catching Foxes made me do it" in your profile.Support Catching FoxesLinks:Clean My Space - YouTubeCLEAN LIKE A PRO: Cleaning the Kitchen Sink! - YouTubeJohn P.A. Ioannidis | Stanford Medicine — My work is trying to optimize the chances of getting more reliable, trustworthy, and useful research. I have worked in the fields of evidence-based medicine, clinical investigation, clinical and molecular epidemiology, clinical research methodology, empirical research methods, statistics, and genomics. The Democratic City and the tendency to thoughtlessness – Catholic World Report — And while there is certainly something deeply true in this claim, the argument often overlooks a more insidious reality. The attempt to label such certain forms of speech or thought as undemocratic, or misinformation, is not fundamentally about free speech. What we are witnessing is the direct annihilation of truth. With great precision, the late political philosopher Fr. James V. Schall, in The Mind that is Catholic: Philosophical and Political Essays, reveals the social and political trajectory of such a logic: Politics and the English Language | The Orwell FoundationAmazon.com: The Iliad: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation): 9781439163375: Homer, Mitchell, Stephen: Books — The Iliad: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation) Hardcover – October 11, 2011 The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology: Pinckaers, Servais: 9780813213941: Amazon.com: Books — The first collection of its kind available in any language, this volume features the twenty most significant essays written by Pinckaers since his highly praised Sources. The essays offer profound reflections that are only possible by a contemporary moral theologian who knows the thought of Aquinas from lifelong study. Amazon.com: Legacies: Galaxy's Edge Season 2, Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition): Jason Anspach, Nick Cole, R.C. Bray, Podium Audio: Audible Books & Originals — With his duty to the Legion satisfied, Wraith sets out to find a lost member of his crew - the young girl Prisma. Not only does the journey bring with it more death and destruction - and loss - than he ever imagined, it revives the shadows of a forgotten past. The only way forward is to follow the footsteps of the legendary Tyrus Rechs.

Navigate Around, my friends, with the chapters. Luke is in a magazine and his team is in the Super Bowl! Gomer updates us on his family situation, including depression, exercise, and Reading Aloud. Then we talk about Stress Management, Health, and Prayer.Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Give it a try and see why over 2 million people have used BetterHelp online therapy. Our listeners get 10% off their first month!OSV Challenge: The OSV Challenge is a multi-round entrepreneurial competition designed to accelerate unique project ideas in any stage from Catholics whose faith motivates them to make a difference. Seeking people with ideas ready to impact the Church that deserve to be nurtured, cultivated and taken to new heights.Executive Coach Solutions: Executive Coach Solutions is a leadership consulting firm that brings creativity and strength-based training to the art of business management.Support Catching FoxesLinks:Show MERCH — MERCH! It's here! Four years too late! Catching Foxes: Podcast lives in the tension between faith and culture – Catholic Telegraph — Labels don’t stick well to the Catching Foxes podcast.Photo Gallery | Best Images Of The 2022 PostseasonExercise is Medicine - Exercise is Medicine — The vision of Exercise is Medicine is to make physical activity assessment and promotion a standard in clinical care, connecting health care with evidence-based physical activity resources for people everywhere and of all abilities.No Unlikely Saints - A Mental Health Pilgrimage With Sacred Company - Brick House in the City — God created us body, soul, and mind, and He cares deeply about our mental health. Let these holy men and women walk alongside you on your journey and assure you that mental health concerns are no disqualifier for holiness and a meaningful, fulfilling life. They will light the way for you and remind you that you do not walk alone.

(sorry for the audio - Gomer's recording gear was left at Church when he did EKSB during his lunchbreak, which seems to fit the theme nicely) "The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash. (Kafka, quoted by Byung-Chul Han in his _The Nation _piece.) Gomer contemplated quitting because he's doing a hundred things and realized that so is Luke with his Notre Dame executive degree. It's a bit much, but we are doing this to ourselves. Over and over again. My dad worked a fulltime job, volunteered with the Knights of Columbus, and was a dad. He didn't write a blog or "create content" for his tribe. He was a dad when he wasn't a credit department supervisor for Texaco's refinery division. Side hustle culture, burnout culture, FIRE aftermath, etc. are all telling Gomer one thing: "You're burning out and you're doing this to yourself."Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Great online counseling made easy!OSV Challenge: The OSV Challenge is a multi-round entrepreneurial competition designed to accelerate unique project ideas in any stage from Catholics whose faith motivates them to make a difference. Seeking people with ideas ready to impact the Church that deserve to be nurtured, cultivated and taken to new heights.Athletic Greens: Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/FOXES.Support Catching FoxesLinks:The Tiredness Virus | The Nation — In one of his aphorisms he writes: “The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master’s whiplash.” This permanent self-flagellation makes us tired and, ultimately, depressed. In a certain respect, neoliberalism is based on self-flagellation.The Burnout Society: Han, Byung-Chul: 9780804795098: Amazon.com: Books — Byung-Chul Han interprets the spreading malaise as an inability to manage negative experiences in an age characterized by excessive positivity and the universal availability of people and goods. Stress and exhaustion are not just personal experiences, but social and historical phenomena as well. Denouncing a world in which every against-the-grain response can lead to further disempowerment, he draws on literature, philosophy, and the social and natural sciences to explore the stakes of sacrificing intermittent intellectual reflection for constant neural connection.The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present - Kindle edition by Han, Byung-Chul, Steuer, Daniel. Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity.  Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals: Hollis, Rachel: 9781400209606: Amazon.com: Books — Hollis identifies the excuses to let go of, the behaviors to adopt, and the skills to acquire on the path to growth, confidence, and believing in yourself.Kevin Barry Reads V. S. Pritchett | The New Yorker — Kevin Barry joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “A Family Man,” by V. S. Pritchett, which was published in The New Yorker in 1977. Barry is a winner of the International Dublin Literary Award and the author of six books of fiction, most recently the story collection “That Old Country Music,” which came out in 2020. Amazon.com: The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition: 9780143121602: Trelease, Jim: Books — This updated edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook discusses the benefits, the rewards, and the importance of reading aloud to children of a new generation. Supported by delightful anecdotes as well as the latest research (including the good and bad news on digital learning), The Read-Aloud Handbook offers proven techniques and strategies for helping children discover the pleasures of reading and setting them on the road to becoming lifelong readers.Amazon.com: The Read-Aloud Family: Making Meaningful and Lasting Connections with Your Kids: 9780310350323: Mackenzie, Sarah: Books — This is a book my wife recommends to relunctant homeschooling families.

Luke and I are chatting away when JD calls in the middle of the show. So we put him on and talk about what it is like reporting on the Church and for the Church. And why some people don't like it. The third part of the show we recorded the following morning. We talk about a new "healthy focus" in our lives (which involves Apple Watches), screen time for kids, and more! Special Guest: JD Flynn.Sponsored By:Athletic Greens: Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/FOXES.OSV Challenge: The OSV Challenge is a multi-round entrepreneurial competition designed to accelerate unique project ideas in any stage from Catholics whose faith motivates them to make a difference. Seeking people with ideas ready to impact the Church that deserve to be nurtured, cultivated and taken to new heights.THESIS: To anyone that’s struggling with focus, energy, or motivation - it’s not you, it’s your brain! Thesis helps you take control of your mind to create habits that last and get a little help if you need a boost.Support Catching Foxes

CF Merch! The sad death of Bob Saget, a birthday quote from then-Pope Benedict, Gomer's back pain and his sedentary life, best WW2 movies that a 12 year old can watch, and Wendell Barry's "The World Ending Fire".Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Great online counseling made easy!Catholic Match: Faith-focused Dating: the largest Catholic dating site in the world—where thousands of Catholics find their spouse. Promo Code: FOXESAthletic Greens: Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1-year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/FOXES.Support Catching FoxesLinks:Bob Saget's Here For You on Apple Podcasts — BOB SAGET’S HERE FOR YOU is a podcast that is like no other— For one, this podcast has guests who are friends of Bob’s, or just really interesting people who many of you know and love. Secondly, this podcast is unique because it goes inside Bob Saget’s mind, and then quickly filters out through his mouth. Bob has a way of calming people he has conversations with as well as being entertaining and often informative. Bob talks with his guests with genuine empathy and humor, while reaching his unusually diverse audience that he talks to as a friend, Bob is the dad with great advice, the irreverent funny guy who’s always there when you need a laugh, and the free-associative Bob who goes off on crazy tangents then returns to the subject at hand, as serious or as comedic as it may be, to wrap up each episode in a way only Bob can do. Because he really does believe, “He’s here for you." Remembering Norm — Looking back at the life and legacy of my dear friend Norm MacDonald. Love you forever, Norm.Is life really a gift? Benedict’s answer on his birthday — I am now facing the last chapter of my life and I do not know what awaits me. I know, however, that the light of God exists, that he is Risen, that his light is stronger than any darkness, that the goodness of God is stronger than any evil in this world. And this helps me to go forward with certainty. May this help us to go forward, and at this moment I wholeheartedly thank all those who have continually helped me to perceive the “yes” of God through their faith. Poem: St. Michael the Weigher by James Russell Lowell — In the other scale he threw Things regardless, outcast, few, Martyr-ash, arena sand, Of St. Francis' cord a strand, Beechen cups of men whose need Fasted that the poor might feed, Disillusions and despairs Of young saints with grief-grayed hairs, Broken hearts that brake for Man.1 of 8 ALAN KEYES vs A. DERSHOWITZ C-Span Debate RELIGION'S ROLE IN AMERICA 9-27-2000 - YouTubeGet Up!: Levine, James — Over the decades, humans have moved from a primarily active lifestyle to one that is largely sedentary, and this change has reshaped every facet of our lives―from social interaction to classroom design. sullivan - Caroline's SpineThe Farmers - Whiffletree Farm — After finishing studies in religion and pre-med at UVa, marrying his wife Liz, and working in Charlottesville, Jesse read a book by Wendell Berry that inspired him to learn more about farming through reading, visiting farmers, and making forays into small farming ventures.

TOPICS COVERED Christmas stuff (Luke's tired, Gomer napped), Eucharistic Desecration with Masks, Old Man Problems, Gomer's new YouTube Religion and Luke's flawless diagnosis of his religious pursuits, Exodus90 and liturgical life Feasting and Fasting and why we need both, the Original Fairy Tale stories, Books Gomer is reading, which leads to... Liturgy and Pop Culture, Spider-Man and all things superhero. Finally, Nostalgia Porn and reboots (Matrix Resurrection) Sponsored By:BetterHelp.com: Great online counseling made easy!Support Catching FoxesLinks:Clean My Space - YouTube — You know you want to watch it. Jim Trelease's Home Page — AFTER writing his million-copy bestseller, The Read-Aloud Handbook, in 1982, Jim Trelease lectured in all 50 states and abroad, advocating the benefits of reading aloud to children. In doing so, he won the applause of both teachers and parents for his pleas in behalf of literacy efforts that contain less "pain" and more focus on turning books into friends, not enemies. Once Upon A Time | Podcast on Spotify — Behind the technicolor confections of Disney’s most beloved films, there are age-old tales of friendship, adventure, heroism — and treachery. In this special collection of Parcast episodes, celebrate the timeless (and twisted) stories that first inspired the animated hits, and trace the legacy of the original Imagineer, Walt Disney himself. Once Upon A Time is a Spotify Original from Parcast.  Society Culture Josef Pieper - In Tune With the WorldDaemon - Kindle edition by Suarez, Daniel. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobol’s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, it’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purpose—one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined... Kill Decision - Kindle edition by Suarez, Daniel. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — A scientist and a soldier must join forces when combat drones zero in on targets on American soil in this gripping technological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez. Principles of Sacred Liturgy - Liturgy Training Publications — Principles of Sacred Liturgy not only introduces pastors, seminarians, permanent deacons, diocesan directors of worship, and liturgical ministers and coordinators to the laws and rubrics of the liturgy, but also to the theological, liturgical, and pastoral rationale that informs them. The Culture of the Incarnation: Essays in Catholic Theology — Emmaus Academic — This book is a collection of essays which have been published by Professor Rowland on themes in the theology of culture. Taken together these essays explore the foundations of a culture built on the humanism of the Incarnation. The Spirit of the Liturgy (Milestones in Catholic Theology) - Kindle edition by Ratzinger, Joseph. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. — Originally written in 1918, this profound reflection on the nature of liturgical worship still stands as a guiding light for today's renewal of worship and prayer. In poetic terms, it clarifies the underlying principles and existential implications of the belief that when Christians join in the Eucharist and other liturgical celebrations, they do so not as discrete individuals but as interconnected members of the one People of God. Andrew Garfield Responds to Fans on the Internet | Actually Me | GQ - YouTube — On this episode of Actually Me, Andrew Garfield goes undercover on the Internet and responds to real comments from Twitter, Instagram, Quora, Wikipedia, Reddit, YouTube and TikTok. Can he actually sing? Is he ready to address the rumors surrounding 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'? Who played his favorite Spider-Man? The Tragedy of Macbeth — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube — Academy Award winners Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in Joel Coen’s bold adaptation of a timeless tale of murder, madness, and wrathful cunning. The Tragedy of Macbeth streaming on Apple TV+ January 14 and now playing in select theaters.

The Great Resignation is leading to over 9 million US jobs unfilled. People are opting out of the workforce right now for a host of reasons- money, unsustainable workloads, pandemic fears- and others are opting out of the very idea of a career. Luke and Gomer chat about the reality of work/life balance when the whole economy is built upon workaholism-as-virtue. Thanks to Catholic Match, Betterhelp.com, and Monk Manual! Sponsored By:Catholic Match: Live your vocation! Go to CatholicMatch.com and put "Catching Foxes made me do it" in your profile.BetterHelp.com: Great online counseling made easy!Support Catching FoxesLinks:Morning Brew — Get the daily email that makes reading the news actually enjoyable. Stay informed and entertained, for free. What If People Don’t Want 'A Career?' - by Charlie Warzel — ‘Careerist’ has long been a dirty word in the working world — usually it’s meant to signify a cynical, ladder climbing mentality. A careerist isn’t a team player. They care more about the job title and advancement than the work. The current brand of career skepticism I’m talking about is different, more absolute. It’s not a rejection of how somebody navigates the game, it’s a rejection of the game itself. The idea isn’t limited to a specific age group, but the best articulation of it comes from younger Millennials and working age Gen Zers. Many of them are fed up with their jobs and they’re quitting in droves. Even those with jobs are reevaluating their options. I no longer aspire to have a career. - YouTube — it's time to rethink this whole thing. I was offered a retention "bonus" today... : antiwork — I've been with this company for 2.5 years. Only ever got a raise once, and it was pathetic - we never had the cash for good raises. But somehow we have the cash for the 7 shirts, backpack, coffee mug, winter coat, and fall jacket that I now have with the company name on them. Laborem Exercens (14 September 1981) | John Paul II — In this context it should be emphasized that, on a more general level, the whole labour process must be organized and adapted in such a way as to respect the requirements of the person and his or her forms of life, above all life in the home, taking into account the individual's age and sex. It is a fact that in many societies women work in nearly every sector of life. But it is fitting that they should be able to fulfil their tasks in accordance with their own nature, without being discriminated against and without being excluded from jobs for which they are capable, but also without lack of respect for their family aspirations and for their specific role in contributing, together with men, to the good of society. The true advancement of women requires that labour should be structured in such a way that women do not have to pay for their advancement by abandoning what is specific to them and at the expense of the family, in which women as mothers have an irreplaceable role. Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText — 2424 A theory that makes profit the exclusive norm and ultimate end of economic activity is morally unacceptable. the disordered desire for money cannot but produce perverse effects. It is one of the causes of the many conflicts which disturb the social order.203 A system that "subordinates the basic rights of individuals and of groups to the collective organization of production" is contrary to human dignity.204 Every practice that reduces persons to nothing more than a means of profit enslaves man, leads to idolizing money, and contributes to the spread of atheism. "You cannot serve God and mammon."205Gratutius Simpsons Slip"You Can SHOVE YOUR JOB!!” Why Are MILLIONS Quitting Work?! - YouTube — One in four people have quit their jobs this year, including 4.3 million in October alone. Why is this happening? #thegreatresignation - YouTube — #thegreatresignation The Great Resignation: Why U.S. Workers Are Burned Out and Quitting | Amanpour and Company - YouTube — As the pandemic eases in some parts of the world, we’re seeing the so-called “great resignation:” 20 million people in the U.S. have quit their jobs since April, according to federal statistics. Jennifer Moss explains this phenomenon in her new book "The Burnout Epidemic," and speaks with Michel Martin about why this is a cultural, rather than an individual, problem. Resisting Impossible Career Choices: My Family’s Move to the Farm - Public Discourse — Rory Groves argues in his 2020 book, Durable Trades, that we should secure careers that will see us through from entry to retirement while supporting—rather than opposing—the relational and economic development of our families and communities. In my family’s case, farming was a way to enjoy the benefits of a durable trade while making up the gap between a single income and a double income.