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chesterton on travel culture

If we were to-morrow morning snowed up in the street in whic...
Maize Public Bath
  12/26/19
Chesterton was right about pretty much everything.
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  12/26/19
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Easy to believe when you were born in Kensington and attende...
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  12/26/19
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Date: December 26th, 2019 6:24 PM
Author: Maize Public Bath

If we were to-morrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known. And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives. First he invents modern hygiene and goes to Margate. Then he invents modern culture and goes to Florence. Then he invents modern imperialism and goes to Timbuctoo. He goes to the fantastic borders of the earth. He pretends to shoot tigers. He almost rides on a camel. And in all this he is still essentially fleeing from the street in which he was born; and of this flight he is always ready with his own explanation. He says he is fleeing from his street because it is dull; he is lying. He is really fleeing from his street because it is a great deal too exciting. It is exciting because it is exacting; it is exacting because it is alive. He can visit Venice because to him the Venetians are only Venetians; the people in his own street are men. He can stare at the Chinese because for him the Chinese are a passive thing to be stared at; if he stares at the old lady in the next garden, she becomes active. He is forced to flee, in short, from the too stimulating society of his equals--of free men, perverse, personal, deliberately different from himself. The street in Brixton is too glowing and overpowering. He has to soothe and quiet himself among tigers and vultures, camels and crocodiles. These creatures are indeed very different from himself. But they do not put their shape or colour or custom into a decisive intellectual competition with his own. They do not seek to destroy his principles and assert their own; the stranger monsters of the suburban street do seek to do this. The camel does not contort his features into a fine sneer because Mr. Robinson has not got a hump; the cultured gentleman at No. 5 does exhibit a sneer because Robinson has not got a dado. The vulture will not roar with laughter because a man does not fly; but the major at No. 9 will roar with laughter because a man does not smoke. The complaint we commonly have to make of our neighbours is that they will not, as we express it, mind their own business. We do not really mean that they will not mind their own business. If our neighbours did not mind their own business they would be asked abruptly for their rent, and would rapidly cease to be our neighbours. What we really mean when we say that they cannot mind their own business is something much deeper. We do not dislike them because they have so little force and fire that they cannot be interested in themselves. We dislike them because they have so much force and fire that they can be interested in us as well. What we dread about our neighbours, in short, is not the narrowness of their horizon, but their superb tendency to broaden it. And all aversions to ordinary humanity have this general character. They are not aversions to its feebleness (as is pretended), but to its energy. The misanthropes pretend that they despise humanity for its weakness. As a matter of fact, they hate it for its strength.

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Date: December 26th, 2019 6:28 PM
Author: puce national

Chesterton was right about pretty much everything.

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Date: August 8th, 2021 8:22 PM
Author: misanthropic arousing center

CR.

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Date: December 26th, 2019 6:31 PM
Author: Useless olive nursing home

Easy to believe when you were born in Kensington and attended art school with your family's money. Not so easy when you were born in Huntington, Alabama and your neighbors are 400 pounds and cooking meth in the basement.

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Date: July 29th, 2021 12:17 PM
Author: Wonderful juggernaut dysfunction

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Date: July 29th, 2021 12:20 PM
Author: misanthropic arousing center

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Date: December 26th, 2019 6:34 PM
Author: Diverse stain heaven

I can guess what Chesterton would think about modern internet shut-ins

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Date: August 8th, 2021 8:20 PM
Author: misanthropic arousing center

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Date: August 8th, 2021 8:22 PM
Author: misanthropic arousing center

Man, now I’m also thinking of Miyazaki’s criticism of anime fans who substitute his movies for a personality / real life engagement of their own

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Date: July 29th, 2021 12:12 PM
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Date: July 29th, 2021 12:19 PM
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Date: July 29th, 2021 12:20 PM
Author: misanthropic arousing center

Many such cases among the cosmopolitan wannabe set!

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Date: August 3rd, 2021 5:40 AM
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Date: August 3rd, 2021 6:13 PM
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Date: August 8th, 2021 8:20 PM
Author: misanthropic arousing center

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