Against Flow

Secular Culture Makes an Idol of Immersive Experience

Secular Americans, influenced by a cocktail of New Age, Western Buddhism, and Silicon Valley, have a tendency of venerating “being in flow,” as if it were the point of life.

Whether you are in flow coding for a startup, climbing a mountain, playing beer pong, reading, teaching, helping the poor, or exploiting the disadvantaged, the important thing is th…