#075: Wyoming Catholic College, Eden, and Education w/ Dr. Glenn Arbery

09/28/22 • 35 min

WCC: "Located in the foothills of Wyoming’s spectacular Wind River Range, Wyoming Catholic College—an accredited, four-year, Great Books institution—is built on the ancient Western tradition of the liberal arts and the freedom of the American West. The college offers its students an immersion in the primary sources of the classical tradition, the grandeur of the mountain wilderness, and the spiritual heritage of the Catholic Church."
Austin had the special opportunity to sit down with WCC president and discuss how the tripartite themes of Catholicity, classical training, and wilderness exploration play out on the day-to-day. From a 21 day backpacking retreat to a no cell phone policy join us as we discuss the way WCC is doing education.
LINKS
Dr Arbery's book, Boundaries of Eden
WCC website
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#074: A Path, Not a Road

Join Austin and Tyler on the path as they discuss roads. The distinction is not the obvious one. The inspiration for this episode was an essay written by Wendell Berry, Native Hill, where he says our inability to be stewards of the earth stems directly from the structures we have adopted. There is a fundamentally different attitude towards our natural environment when we take a road, versus a path. Join us as we not only critique the culture, but try to imagine what the different way forward could look like. See you on the path!
From Wendell Berry:
“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destruction. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around. A road, on the other hand, even the most primitive road, embodies a resistance against the landscape. Its reason is not simply the necessity for movement, but haste. Its wish is to avoid contact with the landscape; it seeks so far as possible to go over the country, rather than through it; its aspiration, as we see clearly in the example of our modern freeways is to be a bridge; its tendency is to translate place into space in order to traverse it with the least effort. It is destructive, seeking to remove or destroy all obstacles in its way.” (62)"

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#076: Should we have 401(k)s on this side of Eden?

The crew wonders aloud whether they should have 401(k)s. (Full disclosure: They all have one or some variation thereof!) They wrestle with the principle of saving, profiting off of suspect companies, and how to invest in real relationships rather than just a healthy return. Are 401(k)s a legitimate way to make money, or is it some form of (black) magic that's too good to be true? The Edenic armchair philosopher-economists might just be left scratching their heads.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS

What is a 401(k) and how does it work?
What does it mean to "save for your vocation"?
Are there any virtues to investing locally?
Do the U.S. Bishops think we should invest and expect a return?
If I don't invest in Amazon, do I also have to give up my Prime membership?
What does JPII have to say about profit?
And how did Noah get fresh and saltwater fish on the ark???

LINKS

What is a 401(k) and How Does it Work?
The Ant and the Grasshopper - Aesop's Fables
USCCB Socially Responsible Investment Guidelines
Centesimus Annus by Pope St. John Paul II
New Polity: Money
Music credit: Boys are Back in Town by Thin Lizzy

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