Pizza, Anarchy, Christendom, and the Sunday Buffet (with guest Domenic Scarcella)

For the return episode of the Philosopher’s Holler Podcast, I am joined by Domenic Scarcella of Good Neighbor, Bad Citizen.

We’re taking more of a conversational approach this time around. Domenic and I start off talking about his life in the small New Jersey town where he lives. We find our way to anarchism/voluntarism, how that fits in with Christianity and Christendom, and end by discussing his book with the same title.

Along the way, we also discuss his career as an Indie musician. Here’s my favorite song by him:

Say Hi to Angelo's.

Our conversation made me think of this old verse essay:

Blowing the Dynamite
Writing about the Catholic Church,
  a radical writer says:
  “Rome will have to do more
  than to play a waiting game;
  she will have to use
  some of the dynamite
  inherent in her message.”
To blow the dynamite
  of a message
  is the only way
  to make the message dynamic.
If the Catholic Church
  is not today
  the dominant social dynamic force,
  it is because Catholic scholars
  have failed to blow the dynamite
  of the Church.
Catholic scholars
  have taken the dynamite
  of the Church,
  have wrapped it up
  in nice phraseology,
  placed it in an hermetic container
  and sat on the lid.
It is about time
  to blow the lid off
  so the Catholic Church
  may again become
  the dominant social dynamic force.

-Peter Maurin, Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement

Let me know in the comments what you think of this more relaxed approach to podcast interviews.