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“So, what can be done, if anything? Not much. The Church must pass through this trial that will shake the belief of many, and even if this is not the final apostasy prophesied in the Catehchism, it is certainly a Western apostasy.”
In everybody there is a certain thing that loves babies, that fears death, that likes sunlight that thing enjoys Dickens.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The point is, that the poor in London are not left alone, but rather deafened and bewildered with raucous and despotic advice. They are not like sheep without a shepherd. They are more like one sheep whom twenty-seven shepherds are shouting at. All the newspapers, all the new advertisements, all the new medicines and new theologies, all the glare
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
Is disinformation/misinformation really a new problem?
But he soon found that amongst the Shadows a man must learn never to be surprised at anything; for if he does not, he will soon grow quite stupid, in consequence of the endless recurrence of surprises.
George MacDonald • The Complete Fairy Tales
When I say that religion and marriage and local loyalty are permanent in humanity, I mean that they recur when humanity is most human; and only comparatively decline when society is comparatively inhuman.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Electric information environments being utterly ethereal fosters the illusion of the world as a spiritual substance. It is now a reasonable facsimile of the mystical body, a blatant manifestation of the Anti-Christ.[7]
(Marshall McLuhan)
Democracy is never quite democratic except when it is quite direct; and it is never quite direct except when it is quite small.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The New Jerusalem
a civilisation which had already taken the wrong turn, the turn that leads to endless inventions and no discoveries, in which new things grow old with confounding rapidity,
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Postman style critique of technology