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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9137229" data-attributes="member: 6779310"><p>Because the Church itself (as in the Magisterium of the Catholic Church) cannot. The monastic vow is a two way street - a promise of fidelity, chastity, celibacy, and obedience in exchange for room, board, education, and purpose. It's a feudal relationship. Every member of a Catholic Monastery is a feudal vassal of the Papacy. (Technically, every 3rd degree member of the KofC is equally in fealty - as the lowest order of Papal Knights.)</p><p>Likewise, the Eastern Orthodox Communions (Byzantium and Moscow) and the Oriental Orthodox Communion (Including Copts, Syriac, and both Tehwado) and Assyrian Churches all have the same lifetime feudal vow.</p><p></p><p>But at the same time, new monasteries and friaries are in fact fewer in recent decades than in past, and many monasteries and friaries have in fact shut down since the 1950's.</p><p></p><p>Many monasteries/nunneries and friaries have closed, too, in the last 70 years. Including the one where my mother discerned and exited from. The sisters of that community got merged into another, slightly better off, one. (She reached out and found two of her fellow postulants in other communities.</p><p></p><p>Monastic life is considerably smaller a community (pun intended) than it was even 50 years ago, both in percentages and absolute numbers. Then, as now, most did NOT make their daily bread doing copying of texts - tho' at least one Orthodox monastery does have a set of scribes who make hand transcribed books.</p><p>Most have other activities to make the money needed to survive; if they cannot, they are merged into other monastic or friary communities.</p><p>The scribes were an important role of the monastic system, but not the primary role.</p><p></p><p>Absolute numbers? not down in the last 50 years - but definitely down since the late 19th C peak. Percentage of the population, steady decline since the 1880s and the first available automobiles within the US.</p><p></p><p>Hoof trimmers for cattle seem to be on the rise, tho'... and there are a dozen of them or more on YouTube.</p><p></p><p>Have we? BMG, Sony, Vevo, and other such groups are still posting profits. If they weren't, they'd pull out. And they haven't.</p><p></p><p>AI as it exists now stands ready to disrupt the markets in music, art, and literature. At the moment, it's not so good at non-fiction...</p><p></p><p>The best of the chatbots are right near the abilit to pass the Turing test. Too bad most of them are being trained for titillation.</p><p></p><p>The combined impacts are going to change a lot. There are still farriers - but only a few. There are still scribes - but mostly not in monasteries; the majority of Scribes are in SCA or similar groups. There are still cobblers - again, mostly hobbyists. I've made two pair of shoes... need to make a third. </p><p></p><p>Bookkeepers are flourishing, despite the tech... because the codes of tax law and regulation are insanely complex.</p><p></p><p>Artists stand to be, much like many watchmakers, whitesmiths and goldsmiths, turning into monetized hobbies, rather than continued employment. </p><p></p><p>Even, as of this week, Policing is getting new force multipliers. </p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://abc7ny.com/nypd-subway-patrol-robot-times-square-nyc-eric-adams-secuirty-in-station/13814245/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>AI and automation are changing society heavily. Even education. No, <em>especially education</em>. </p><p></p><p>The game industry is changing, too... and it will continue to change. As it has been since it truly became an industry. I don't think it a particularly good time to be an artist... but it's going to be as important as the Impressionists, or the Protestant Reformation, or the movable type press (Bi Sheng or Gutenburg, depending upon culture, and a few centuries...)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9137229, member: 6779310"] Because the Church itself (as in the Magisterium of the Catholic Church) cannot. The monastic vow is a two way street - a promise of fidelity, chastity, celibacy, and obedience in exchange for room, board, education, and purpose. It's a feudal relationship. Every member of a Catholic Monastery is a feudal vassal of the Papacy. (Technically, every 3rd degree member of the KofC is equally in fealty - as the lowest order of Papal Knights.) Likewise, the Eastern Orthodox Communions (Byzantium and Moscow) and the Oriental Orthodox Communion (Including Copts, Syriac, and both Tehwado) and Assyrian Churches all have the same lifetime feudal vow. But at the same time, new monasteries and friaries are in fact fewer in recent decades than in past, and many monasteries and friaries have in fact shut down since the 1950's. Many monasteries/nunneries and friaries have closed, too, in the last 70 years. Including the one where my mother discerned and exited from. The sisters of that community got merged into another, slightly better off, one. (She reached out and found two of her fellow postulants in other communities. Monastic life is considerably smaller a community (pun intended) than it was even 50 years ago, both in percentages and absolute numbers. Then, as now, most did NOT make their daily bread doing copying of texts - tho' at least one Orthodox monastery does have a set of scribes who make hand transcribed books. Most have other activities to make the money needed to survive; if they cannot, they are merged into other monastic or friary communities. The scribes were an important role of the monastic system, but not the primary role. Absolute numbers? not down in the last 50 years - but definitely down since the late 19th C peak. Percentage of the population, steady decline since the 1880s and the first available automobiles within the US. Hoof trimmers for cattle seem to be on the rise, tho'... and there are a dozen of them or more on YouTube. Have we? BMG, Sony, Vevo, and other such groups are still posting profits. If they weren't, they'd pull out. And they haven't. AI as it exists now stands ready to disrupt the markets in music, art, and literature. At the moment, it's not so good at non-fiction... The best of the chatbots are right near the abilit to pass the Turing test. Too bad most of them are being trained for titillation. The combined impacts are going to change a lot. There are still farriers - but only a few. There are still scribes - but mostly not in monasteries; the majority of Scribes are in SCA or similar groups. There are still cobblers - again, mostly hobbyists. I've made two pair of shoes... need to make a third. Bookkeepers are flourishing, despite the tech... because the codes of tax law and regulation are insanely complex. Artists stand to be, much like many watchmakers, whitesmiths and goldsmiths, turning into monetized hobbies, rather than continued employment. Even, as of this week, Policing is getting new force multipliers. [URL unfurl="true"]https://abc7ny.com/nypd-subway-patrol-robot-times-square-nyc-eric-adams-secuirty-in-station/13814245/[/URL] AI and automation are changing society heavily. Even education. No, [I]especially education[/I]. The game industry is changing, too... and it will continue to change. As it has been since it truly became an industry. I don't think it a particularly good time to be an artist... but it's going to be as important as the Impressionists, or the Protestant Reformation, or the movable type press (Bi Sheng or Gutenburg, depending upon culture, and a few centuries...) [/QUOTE]
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