What Benedict Option?

 "This is life as it ought to be lived."

Grimly pursuing the Benedict Option in post-Christian America? That isn't life as it ought to be lived - well, for you maybe, but not for Rod Dreher, impresario of that black hole of meaning.

While you try to make sense of it, maybe even deform your life and values in pursuit of it, Rod might end up writing a book about it, or he might not, but "life as it ought to be lived" won't include any Benedict Option he gulls you into for him. Instead, "life as it ought to be lived" for him will be vacationing in Italy for the Palio, then on to Lyon for a palate-cleanser of French cuisine, and then later - who knows?

Rod's having the time of his life. You? You're the mark that makes it all possible, BOpper.