Single men who stay at home playing video games catch a lot flack from everyone except those in the androsphere who understand their situation and are sympathetic to their plight. Is it really the case that they've left the world to enjoy childish games? Or rather, might it be that the world has left them and video games are just a means of coping? The androsphere casts the spotlight on Uhmerican women and how repulsive they may be. Traditionalists are aware of the consequences of industrialization and centralization of power: wage slavery and atomization. The megapolis, with its fragmentation and lack of a common identity and communal life, is not inhospitable and inhumane, producing psychologically and morally stunted individuals who don't know how to love deeply and widely n a community. Rather than putting out the effort to make a connection and cultivate friends, it is easier and it may be rewarding just to stay home and enjoy one's private entertainment or hobbies. If you're willing to put the effort but others aren't, what can you do but give up? The advertised convenience of e-mail and social networking websites is useless when people don't have the character to take advantage of them, and it is a waste of energy for bishops to encourage their use as a part of the new evangelization.
Our present reality makes the rare true friendship even more valuable.
A while back I posted a podcast by an Orthodox priest about community and relocalization. I think the priest was right, if I am remembering what he said correctly -- people need to be reacquainted what what it means to be human(e) - living with others and being friends, and this is a necessary part of evangelization and conversion. (I am not sure if he said it was a necessary prelude for evangelization.)
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