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In this episode, Jayce and James sit down with Chris Scaperlanda, a father, attorney and friend, to wrestle with Ross Douthat's New York Times article, "An Age of Extinction is Coming. Here's How to Survive," all about how technology dulls desire, rewires dating, and thins out community, then offer concrete ways to choose presence, prayer, and embodied friendship. They strive to offer a grounded, hopeful take on resisting the virtual treadmill and building a human life that lasts.

• why distraction deadens desire for God and others
• tech as bottleneck replacing real practices with simulations
• dating apps, risk, rejection, and thin relationships
• McLuhan, Pascal, and the medium shaping attention
• junk food analogy for addictive digital design
• practical resistance: books, sports, gardens, live music
• parenting guardrails and tech-free formation
• community as inhale and exhale, parish at the center
• prayer off the phone, rhythms that restore attention
• ending with “choose life” as a daily practice

Article: "An Age of Extinction is Coming. Here's How to Survive.": https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/extinction-technology-culture.html

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Links and other stuff from the show:
Pastoral Letter, "On the Unity of the Body and Soul:" archokc.org/pastoral-letters
Red Dirt Catholics Email Address: reddirtcatholics@archokc.org
The Book "From Christendom to Apostolic Mission" (Digital and Print): Amazon
The Social Dilemma: https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224
Daily Examen Prayer: https://bit.ly/309As8z
Lectio Divina How-To: https://bit.ly/3fp8UTa