things<\/em> and ask, “What have you to say to one another?” So the reflection is theological, but its consequence is intended to be of the world. I very much recommend reading it in the context of the issue as a whole, which is being slowly published a piece or two at a time.<\/p>\nI’ll leave you with the passage that inspired the whole project, which I discovered hidden away in David Cayley’s 1992 book Ivan Illich in Conversation<\/em>. The characters are Illich and Jacques Maritain, the neo-Thomist French existentialist philosopher.<\/p>\nIn a 1988 interview, the priest-turned-radical Ivan Illich recalls a 1957 encounter with Maritain. Illich wondered why there was no reference \u201cto the concept of planning\u201d in his work.<\/p>\n
[Maritain] asked me if this was an English word for \u201caccounting,\u201d and I told him no\u2026 if it was for \u201cengineering,\u201d and I said no\u2026 and then at a certain moment he said to me, \u201cAh! Je comprends, mon cher ami, maintenant je comprends.<\/em> Now I finally understand. C\u2019est une nouvelle esp\u00e8ce du p\u00e9ch\u00e9 de pr\u00e9somption.<\/em> Planning is a new variety of the sin of pride.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\nFind out what he means<\/a> at Triple Canopy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,45,54,52,101,19,16,88,50,73],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-algorithms","tag-becoming","tag-conversation","tag-evolution","tag-imagination","tag-metaphor","tag-religion-science","tag-secularism","tag-technology","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}