Personaly I never want to live in the city. I like visiting it ocasionaly but I don't want to live there. On distributism, distributism doesn't exclusivly advocate an agrarian lifestyle. I't does hold agriculture in high esteam as the primary occupational vocation of man "till the earth and subdue it" God told Adam. But what distributism advocates is that most men shold own their own means of livelyhood for the suport of themselvelves themselves and for their family. It advocates craft above mass production and local economy above international. It also advocates that the men of the various occupations join together into what are known as guilds these serving the purpose of mutual suport and protection, they would serve many of the roles now played by the government such as suport of those who are sick or cannot work, as also to insure quality and honesty in the members work and to prevent one, from runing his neighbor out of buisness. It is is a philosophy rooted in the Papal Encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragisimo Anno But also in Biblical teaching, Medieval, and Classical Philosophy.

TSO,

I have not read it. I tend to view agrarianism as a follow of the Englisch upper classes. Man is a social animal who should live in cities, whether they be of 10 million or 250. Take a town like Sarteano, (SI), in Tuscany. Little spot on the map (you get off at the Chiusi train station and take a bus, or, if you are driving, take the Chiusi exit of the A-1 and turn left). There is nothing much for checklist tourists: a few baroque paintings, but otherwise just a small town. However, it has a civic life that is amazing.

Leave the countryside for wolves and hermits. Tend the farms outside the city, but live in the city. Otherwise you can get mighty dingy.

This is unrelated to the post, but I dimly recall that you are anti-Distributionist & anti-agarian (in the sense Distributism means). I know little about the subject, so was recommended "I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition". Just curious if you've read it and/or if you think it's worthwhile.