About The Countermarch

There must be more to life than this. If you have never thought those words, The Countermarch is not for you.

Or, perhaps, The Countermarch is especially for you.

Everything that we desire in life, and everything that we regret, flows from the same source: our recognition that we are called to something more than the life that we are living. For over five centuries, since the dawn of the modern age, we have been promised that all of our desires will be satisfied, and all of our regrets will fade away, once the politicians and economists and scientists and educators figure out the best plan for every aspect of our lives.

While we have made great strides in science and technology, and (perhaps) in politics and economics, we have done so by narrowing our horizons and reducing every complexity of human life to a problem that we must solve. But our hearts still tell us that there’s more to life than politics and making as much money as we can; that the technological and medical advances that have improved our lives in many ways have also diminished them; that information is not the same as knowledge, much less the same as wisdom; that imagination and the creative impulse call us beyond ourselves into a world not yet born — yet one that has, in a deeper sense, always existed.

The purpose of The Countermarch is to provide glimpses of that world — and, by doing so, to expand our horizons so that we can see beyond the narrow confines of the political ideologies that consume us both figuratively and, sometimes, literally; the economic systems that convince us to regard our relationship with our neighbor as a zero-sum game; the technologies that substitute for the infinite diversity of joys and sorrows of real life a vision of a virtual world in which all divisions cease, as every man, woman, and child is reduced to the lowest common denominator in the pursuit of our basest desires.

There is more to life than this. And together, we will find it, as we cut through the web of simplifications, distortions, and outright lies that occupy every moment of our days to reveal the fullness of the beauty and truth of the life to which we have been called to live.

Awaken your imagination. Join The Countermarch today!

— Scott P. Richert

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