286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul
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286 / Travelling at the speed of the soul
Technological acceleration has also sped up our expectations. The norms of our social lives have accelerated with technological acceleration, meaning those reaching out to me expect a response that is coordinate to the speed of their original message.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
you need to walk a city’s streets to see its soul.
Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
Speed in a new age of mobilization is assumed to be so powerful it can even unhook human orders from the divine.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
The difference between the epoch of early modernity and the present is, to simplify drastically, that formerly the body had time to accept the graft, the new organ, whereas now we are hurtling forward willy-nilly, assuming that if a technology is connected with communications or information processing it must be good, we must need it—and that we ha
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