A Big World

6/11/07 - 2nd Day - After Breakfast. In reading some of the historical propaganda for the urban/industrial revolution, the salesman for industrialism constantly returned to a single favorite mantra: Industrialism and corporatism makes the world smaller. Just as paved roads enhanced the speed and comfort of travel, the witty inventions of the carnal industrial society have increased the shrinking of the world. All of this is part of the plan of the Devil to shrink the Creation, parse it out into nano-parts, and put it all in a manageable portion into a man's head. I think the Lord wanted the world to stay big, and for us to stay small in it. I think God desires for man to properly place his head into the huge world God created, and not vice-versa. When considering our responsibilities as Agrarians and custodians of the original commands of God in this regard (Gen. 2:15, 3:23), we need to consider every invention very carefully - because the Bible pronounces several anathemas on the inventions of man. In this, the Amish have a lot of things right. Every invention is not embraced merely because it is nifty, time-saving, or comfort enhancing. In fact, these might be the right reasons to reject it. We might need to consider whether the invention in question shrinks the world at all, and categorize its morality on more than just its immediate impact on our comfort and bottom line.

Just a thought I had this morning,

Michael Bunker