According to German sociologist Hartmut Rosa, the formula for successful living in late modernity is quality via quantity. That is, the good life––or successful relating to the world––is determined by the sheer volume of options and resources available to us. We have undergone, as Holly Ordway puts it, a “Ptolemaic shift” in perspective––the world revolves around us and we seek to control it from that central vantage point. Bringing more of the world under our control is the technique for flourishing.
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Hayden Nesbit
Hayden Nesbit is an associate pastor at Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church.
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