Ivan Illich News Today

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6

Sanghnomics: Many western economists and thinkers have also highlighted the failure of the western model of development

Wrestling with starting over in a small town and the technology that chains us and sets us free.

From the Global North to the Global South.

Our revelry-friendly daily links

A growing number of young people are bristling against the strictures of identitarianism.

Some of the most divisive notions in the Western world and the Global North: individualism and independence. Are they a myth?

Vaccine skepticism, and the broader medical mistrust and far-reaching anxieties it reflects, is not just a fringe position.

These ideas come from their personal histories, not just the internet.

In Elizabeth Gilbert’s book The Signature of All Things a young woman is greatly distressed because her maid’s grandmother has died.1 The young woman had never met the grandmother. She looks to a woman in late middle age for help, and this is what she hears: “What a great heap of nonsense…At my age, can you begin to imagine how many people’s grandmothers I have seen die? What if I had wept over each one of them? A grandmother’s death does not constitute a tragedy, child—and somebod...