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The reaper’s luminescent scythe
hangs low in the evening sky
handle hidden by the horizon
cold sickle blade gleaming
a surreal fuchsia-rose seeming
to anticipate a harvest soon for man;
lethargic, bows down as it nears the land,
looming larger, blood red hues grow
from grazing the dark round field below.
Transfixed, I watch its sweep impossibly slow
plunge
gold and dross and poetry
You plug your mind
into machine,
ignore your senses,
cut down fence whose
purpose has been
long-forgotten;
the medium
is still the message
though, you can’t
ignore the wreckage
that your cutting
has begotten.
The epistemic
damage when you
discard all the
systems special
tuned to gather,
filter, and
exploit reality
leads one to places
dark of meaning,
‘lectric
We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it. We now add that we must be fond of another world (real or imaginary) in order to have something to change it to. We need not debate about the mere words evolution or progress: personally I prefer to call it reform. For reform implies form. It implies that we are trying to shape
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
find that relief in constant motion, which is the hope of all active minds when invaded by distress.
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
People are entitled to self-government; that is, to such government as is self-made. They are not necessarily entitled to a special and elaborate machinery that somebody else has made. It is their right to make it for themselves, but it is also their duty to think of it for themselves.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The New Jerusalem
on immigration
For there is a real connection between such catastrophes and a certain frame of mind which refuses to expect them.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
By the accident of my present detachment, I can see the inevitable smash of the philosophies of Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, Nietzsche and Shaw, as clearly as an inevitable railway smash could be seen from a balloon. They are all on the road to the emptiness of the asylum. For madness may be defined as using mental activity so as to reach mental
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Will is the rejection of almost everything — similar to how a painter has to choose the frame and borders and subject
They never fell into the habit of the idle revolutionists of supposing that the past was bad because the future was good, which amounted to asserting that because humanity had never made anything but mistakes it was now quite certain to be right.