“All right we are two nations”
John Dos Passos, The Big Money
Chris Arnade is a remarkable reporter and a better man. His book Dignity has a special resonance during this corona virus crisis.
Front Row America is doing pretty well. Back Row America is devastated. The brave firefighters of the MSM – First Row America at its least appealing – have no real desire to report on that devastation.
This CSPAN interview with Arnade is remarkable and powerful.
Good essay on Arnade and his book by Rob Dreher here.
A little Chesterton from Heretics:
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In practice the great difference between the medieval ethics and ours is that ours concentrate attention on the sins which are the sins of the ignorant, and practically deny that the sins which are the sins of the educated are sins at all.
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We are always talking about the sin of intemperate drinking because it is quite obvious that the poor have it more than the rich. But we are always denying that there is any such thing as the sin of pride, because it would be quite obvious that the rich have it more than the poor.
We are always ready to make a saint or a prophet of the educated man who goes into cottages to give a little kindly advice to the uneducated. But the medieval idea of a saint or a prophet was something quite different. The medieval saint or prophet was an uneducated man who walked into grand houses to give a little kindly advice to the educated.
5 comments:
"We are always talking about the sin of intemperate drinking because it is quite obvious that the poor have it more than the rich."
C S Lewis argued that the term Gluttony is also applicable when someone doesn't necessarily eat too much, but is unduly picky about what they do eat...especially in a way to cause inconvenience to others.
Sometimes I wonder if the sin of gluttony has not also changed form with our affluence. A man who eats six Big Macs is seen as a glutton. But what of the man who insists that his palate is so refined that he can only be satisfied with a $120 hamburger prepared with exquisite care by the latest "hot chef"?
Craig....yes, that was Lewis's point...in The Screwtape Letters, he gave several examples of the type.
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