Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
In this video I welcome two new acquaintances, Matthew Taylor and Thomas Turner, for a conversation about Catholic Social Teaching and practical application of Distributist principles. Lord willing, this is only the first conversation with these smart two men from very different backgrounds and experiences.
Links and notes forwarded by Tom:
forums.delphiforums.com/Distributism
A sample of redirecting technology:
permies.com/t/54517/ultimate-potential-wheat-straw-construction
I know you have all your favorite homesteading YouTubers, I'll just offer this one for you to consider: Pete, he's a former Architect in upstate NY, in the Beautiful Finger Lakes region (where land is surprisingly cheap). In this video Pete describes opting-out, or his journey back to Distributism: YOU can live your small farm dream! In the long form of Interview Matthew and I did a whole section on Bourgeois and Baroque and Distributism. Matthew's suggestion of a Ghibli movie was about a young man who devotes himself to learning to build masterpiece violins. The concept is to reject the Bourgeois and embrace the Baroque facilitated by a bonded distributist group. Pete does his version of it here: Our farm's story: frugality, perseverance, and love. youtube.com/watch?v=o8Y68uK5KlU (I'd like to contact Pete and show him how he is a dyed-in-the-wool distributist even though he may never have heard that word.)
I watched your video on Laurel's Kitchen. That inspired this thread on how -- now that we've flushed 36" of topsoil (plus thousands of tons of agri-poison) into the dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico -- we might rebuild that topsoil back. To Till, or Not to Till, and WHY permies.com/t/65316
Links forwarded by Matthew:
Interview with a Distributist (Matthew interviews Tom)
Online Repository:
kinjo.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=1106&item_no=1&page_id=15&block_id=18
Also available on Matthew's Academia page:
https://www.academia.edu/42837177/Interview_with_a_Distributist
Christian Economics? A Case for Distributism in the Age of UBI (an essay by Matthew in draft form, forthcoming/in press)
https://www.academia.edu/44299203/Christian_Economics_A_Case_for_Distributism_in_the_Age_of_UBI_Draft_Submission_
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Muen Shakai and Its Implications (an essay by Matthew, mentioned by Tom)
http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1801/1801taylor/
Scenes of Distress: Reflection on Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" (a related essay by Matthew)
http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2202/2202taylor/
Gods of the Marketplace: The "Work Ethic" from Max Weber to Universal Basic Income (an essay by Matthew, mentioned by Tom)
http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2402/2402taylor/
In this video I welcome two new acquaintances, Matthew Taylor and Thomas Turner, for a conversation about Catholic Social Teaching and practical application of Distributist principles. Lord willing, this is only the first conversation with these smart two men from very different backgrounds and experiences.
Links and notes forwarded by Tom:
forums.delphiforums.com/Distributism
A sample of redirecting technology:
permies.com/t/54517/ultimate-potential-wheat-straw-construction
I know you have all your favorite homesteading YouTubers, I'll just offer this one for you to consider: Pete, he's a former Architect in upstate NY, in the Beautiful Finger Lakes region (where land is surprisingly cheap). In this video Pete describes opting-out, or his journey back to Distributism: YOU can live your small farm dream! In the long form of Interview Matthew and I did a whole section on Bourgeois and Baroque and Distributism. Matthew's suggestion of a Ghibli movie was about a young man who devotes himself to learning to build masterpiece violins. The concept is to reject the Bourgeois and embrace the Baroque facilitated by a bonded distributist group. Pete does his version of it here: Our farm's story: frugality, perseverance, and love. youtube.com/watch?v=o8Y68uK5KlU (I'd like to contact Pete and show him how he is a dyed-in-the-wool distributist even though he may never have heard that word.)
I watched your video on Laurel's Kitchen. That inspired this thread on how -- now that we've flushed 36" of topsoil (plus thousands of tons of agri-poison) into the dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico -- we might rebuild that topsoil back. To Till, or Not to Till, and WHY permies.com/t/65316
Links forwarded by Matthew:
Interview with a Distributist (Matthew interviews Tom)
Online Repository:
kinjo.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=1106&item_no=1&page_id=15&block_id=18
Also available on Matthew's Academia page:
https://www.academia.edu/42837177/Interview_with_a_Distributist
Christian Economics? A Case for Distributism in the Age of UBI (an essay by Matthew in draft form, forthcoming/in press)
https://www.academia.edu/44299203/Christian_Economics_A_Case_for_Distributism_in_the_Age_of_UBI_Draft_Submission_
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Muen Shakai and Its Implications (an essay by Matthew, mentioned by Tom)
http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1801/1801taylor/
Scenes of Distress: Reflection on Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" (a related essay by Matthew)
http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2202/2202taylor/
Gods of the Marketplace: The "Work Ethic" from Max Weber to Universal Basic Income (an essay by Matthew, mentioned by Tom)
http://anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap2402/2402taylor/
