In the 200s AD, the Roman Empire saw the rise of monastic traditions beginning in the deserts of Egypt and Syria. In Syria, St. Pachomius was working out how Christian ascetics could live in monastic communities, while in Egypt, St. Anthony was living as a solitary hermit in the desert. Within a generation of these two saints beginning their different types of monastic living, tens of thousands were copying them in Syria and Egypt, living in monasteries or else as lone hermits in the desert, in the latter case trying to emulate the life of Saint John the Baptist, the "voice of one crying in the wilderness: make straight the way of the Lord!"
Why did this all happen? Because in the 200s AD, Rome experienced 50 years of civil wars and almost as many emperors. The Roman Empire nearly fell, and life after the "Crisis of the Third Century" was never the same again. By the late 200s, Rome's skeptical, materialistic, rather complacent attitude was all gone, replaced by religious fervor among the entire population, from peasants to rulers, and by a need for spiritual consolation and oneness with the Divine.

We, today, in the modern world, are still quite skeptical, materialistic, and complacent, but crisis is emerging and many are yearning for a deeper meaning, a true purpose, in their lives. I suggest that if some intrepid souls, the likes of Saint Pachomius and St. Anthony, began a new tradition of monasticism in the West, hundreds of thousands of people would follow in their footsteps within a generation.
The teaching of those "Desert Fathers" became the foundation for medieval monasticism in Europe after the Empire fell and the region entered a Dark Age, as St. Benedict founded his monastery in Italy, consciously looking to the Desert Fathers as an example of how to get it right.
Incels, femcels, and others cast aside by today's society could find the warm embrace of God in a monastic setting, thus transforming their lives from ones of nihilistic rage to lives of

In the 200s AD, the Roman Empire saw the rise of monastic traditions beginning in the deserts of Egypt and Syria. In Syria, St. Pachomius was working out how Christian ascetics could live in monastic communities, while in Egypt, St. Anthony was living as a solitary hermit in the desert. Within a generation of these two saints beginning their different types of monastic living, tens of thousands were copying them in Syria and Egypt, living in monasteries or else as lone hermits in the desert, in the latter case trying to emulate the life of Saint John the Baptist, the "voice of one crying in the wilderness: make straight the way of the Lord!"
Why did this all happen? Because in the 200s AD, Rome experienced 50 years of civil wars and almost as many emperors. The Roman Empire nearly fell, and life after the "Crisis of the Third Century" was never the same again. By the late 200s, Rome's skeptical, materialistic, rather complacent attitude was all gone, replaced by religious fervor among the entire population, from peasants to rulers, and by a need for spiritual consolation and oneness with the Divine.

We, today, in the modern world, are still quite skeptical, materialistic, and complacent, but crisis is emerging and many are yearning for a deeper meaning, a true purpose, in their lives. I suggest that if some intrepid souls, the likes of Saint Pachomius and St. Anthony, began a new tradition of monasticism in the West, hundreds of thousands of people would follow in their footsteps within a generation.
The teaching of those "Desert Fathers" became the foundation for medieval monasticism in Europe after the Empire fell and the region entered a Dark Age, as St. Benedict founded his monastery in Italy, consciously looking to the Desert Fathers as an example of how to get it right.
Incels, femcels, and others cast aside by today's society could find the warm embrace of God in a monastic setting, thus transforming their lives from ones of nihilistic rage to lives of

Those of us looking for consolation and comfort in this deadened world might do well to look at the example of the Desert Father of the third century, who established Christian monastic tradition and shaped all subsequent Christianity.
The only way to deal with today's world might be to withdraw from it. If you participate, you inevitably have to do many immoral things that will weigh on your conscience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fathers