6 comments

  • ChiMan 2 minutes ago
    The monks likely have the time to think about implementation, and feeling like they’re part of an institution that transcends them and that they value for its own sake, they likely have an incentive to invest effort into maintaining and improving it.

    Both of these are unlike, say, corporate environments, where the core work uses up almost all available time and where most people are looking mostly to extract something from the organization.

  • bxk76 11 minutes ago
    Whats is always interesting about monestic life and its emergence (minus light sabers) is that society across cultures has created spaces for people who dont fit. This need has been recognized and supported for thousands of years.
    • MrBuddyCasino 5 minutes ago
      And there hasn’t really been a replacement for that in modern times. This is a problem.
  • blackoil 1 hour ago
    Religion is one of the best at marketing and fund-raising since millenias. Why is it surprising that they adapt to new tech? They have done it for printing press before that.
  • wartywhoa23 1 hour ago
    Well, AI is the New Messiah, and very VC backed at this point, so no surprise.
  • recurseP 2 days ago
    In my country most monasteries are becoming luxury hotels so yes, they are adapting remarkably well to these times.
    • Keirmot 15 minutes ago
      That is not a new phenomenon, per se. The hospitality industry was shaped by monasteries, based on the Rule of St. Benedict.
  • steve1977 58 minutes ago
    Religion was behind the spread of printed books, at least here in Europe, so this seems in line.
    • andrepd 43 minutes ago
      It was also behind unspeakable acts of massive cultural destruction, so there's that.
      • otabdeveloper4 1 minute ago
        Source? Proofs?

        Do communism and secular humanism count as "religions" here?

      • forgetfreeman 14 minutes ago
        So was the search for condiments.
        • defrost 11 minutes ago
          The Spice must flow.