What's Wrong with the World
The most direct method for comprehending a world in which not all human beings are homo economicus would therefore appear to involve a return to some version of the older tradition. However, why did the older tradition fail in the first place? After all, it seemed to ask some obvious and important questions. How could these questions simply be aban... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
Thus it is progress that must be blamed for most of these things: and we ought not to turn away in contempt from something antiquated, but rather recognise with respect and even alarm a sort of permanent man-trap in the idea of being modern. So that the moral of this matter is the same as that of the other; that these things should raise in us, not
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The New Jerusalem
it reminded me that there was in the world of to-day that utterly idiotic thing, a worship of success; a thing that only means surpassing anybody in anything;
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The Consumer Story has its own old men – referring back to Lawrence of Arabia’s lament – who will keep trying to solve the problems of our time with the same thinking that created them.