'La estupidez de la gente culta'
-Artículos año 1912-
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Editado por Ediciones Encuentro en 2025
Como en toda bodega del Señor, existen estúpidas, no solo en las cases humildes o empobrecidas.
El autor nos escribe sobre la gente culta, ya saben, la superioridad moral de la intelligentsia. . .
G. K. #Chesterton #AntiWar, #AntiGovernment #poem seen in a #StokeOnTrent chippy today.
Government will not solve the core problems of society. Your favored political candidate will not solve the root causes of the main problems in society. If you're voting for a savior you're doing it wrong.
Or as #Chesterton said,
“Political or economic reform will not make us good and happy, but until this odd period nobody ever expected that they would.”
More from GCK in the comments
Moar #Chesterton quotes, plox!
G.K. Chesterton, distributism, communitarianism and more
https://khanya.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/g-k-chesterton-distributism-communitarianism-and-more/
"Not only has #Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald #Trump, but the spin of Harris's coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump's coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative)."
Or as #Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy, "We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us."
Loosely based on the #Chesterton's Fence #principle:
When reforming #software, as distinct from deforming it, there's a simple principle: If you encounter #code and don't understand its purpose, don't remove it. It is extremely likely there was a reason to write it. Until you understand that reason, you can't judge if it's reasonable. Some #programmers get over this difficulty by assuming their predecessors were fools; but if that's true, we'd have to conclude that stupidity runs in the family.
The Man Who Was Thursday - fun but old. #mastobooks #books #bookstodon #booksofmastodon #audiobook #audiobooks #review #reviews #philosophy #Chesterton https://www.ewafabian.pl/the-man-who-was-thursday-a-nightmare/
Conveni de col·laboració entre la #BiblioEpiscopal i el Centre d'Estudis i Documentació G. K. #Chesterton
https://bibliotecaepiscopalbcn.org/conveni-de-collaboracio-entre-la-bpeb-i-el-cedgkc/
This is a great piece about the problem of automation. It relies on understanding the role which processes and objects serve within organisations, which is rarely the case for people making decisions about automation:
Here it’s worth remembering a heuristic inspired by writer G. K. Chesterton. In his 1929 book “The Thing,” Chesterton recounts the case of the reformer who notices a fence, but fails to see the reason for its existence.
Chesterton explains that the fence didn’t grow out of the ground; each was planned and built by people who identified a need for one. We need to understand what that need is. Removing a fence without understanding why it was built in the first place risks second-order effects that cause damage later on.
Chesterton’s Fence is why user research acts as a crucial filter. It sheds light on tasks ripe for automation, but also on essential context like regulation or unintended consequences that automation could worsen.
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/05/06/gk-chestertons-fence-and-the-problem-of-automation/
Sunday offering
The Ghost of Byron's Daughter: AI, Fairy Tales, and the Lovelace Test
https://thingsinvisible.substack.com/p/the-ghost-of-byrons-daughter
#AI #FairyTales #Chesterton #sentience #cnf
One of the most anti-advertisement heavy hitters I've read.
#chesterton #adblock #advertising #marketing [found it as a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36537564]
#Chesterton recognizes #PrideMonth in #response to #sign #incident where a #domesticterrorist #spraypainted a sign with a genocidal message.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Indiana #Conservatives #Fascism #Extremism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
Ah, found it one at long last...
The poor have been rebels but they never have been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government; the poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. – G. K.
#Introduction. I (Editor) love quoting #GKChesterton. He was a great #journalist whose #essay(s) are still loved today. Advocated #Distributism #Economics. What he noticed about #Millionaires 100 years ago still apply to #Billionaires today.
#HistoryRepeats. #Chesterton was a huge influence on #Fantasy #Literature today, inspiring such #Authors as #Tolkien, #Pratchett, #CSLewis, and #Gaiman, with his thoughts on #Myth, #Story, #Art, and #Narrative.
They were not content with the natural sympathy we all have with such natural feelings; they really gave to them the supremacy of supernatural feelings — and (what is the real point) the only supernatural feelings. They did not use the coarse cant of our day; but they did, in fact, make Sex the supreme end of life for its own sake — in which they were much less sensible than the common or garden flowers. They therefore missed the whole meaning of Dante,
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#Dante #Poetry #Chesterton #Quotes
Having figured as ruthless realists sweeping all spiritual visions like cobwebs out of the sky, they then suddenly became extravagant sentimentalists over some of the common or garden flowers they found growing naturally out of the earth.
-- G. K. Chesterton
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Source: All Is Grist (1931)
#Rational #Realist #Spiritual #Thinking #Feeling #Ruthless #Sentimental #Modern #Chesterton #Dante #Quotes
Now, I for one detest Imperialism, but I have a great deal of sympathy with Jingoism. And there seemed something so touching about this unbroken and innocent bragging... It is so obvious and so jolly to be optimistic about England, especially when you are an optimist—and an Englishman.
--G K Chesterton
Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
#CorruptedInnocence #Jingoism #Imperialism #History #England #StateOfDemocracy #Journalism #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes
There is an English country that the Imperialists have never found. The British Empire may annex what it likes, it will never annex England. It has not even discovered the island, let alone conquered it.
-G K Chesterton
Source: Tremendous Trifles (1909)
#Home #Safe #Empire #England #Imperialism #Discernment #Love #Thoughts #Chesterton #Quotes
