Christian Conviviality in a Hyperindustrial World: Reflecting on Ivan Illich - Part 2

Last time, we suggested that to recover our humanity in an increasingly inhuman world, we must recover what Ivan Illich called the tools of conviviality. But this requires, at least in part, that we recognize the difference between cultural tools and modes of life which deskill and those which, increasingly, simply cultivate greater dependence.The difference just noted between cultural tools and modes of life which deskill and those which, increasingly, cultivate dependence may be r...