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G.K. Chesterton vs. Communism and Socialism
In 2016, Danish politician Ida Auken described the year 2030 as a happy place to live: no car, no house, no appliances, no privacy, and a living room lent out for business meetings whenever she steps away. Joe Grabowski and Grettelyn Darkey read Ida Auken's essay beside G.K. Chesterton, who had already named the bargain nearly a century before it was offered—that privacy is the mark of property, and that a people stripped of both are being fitted for a hive instead of a home.  In This Episode: Why G.K. Chesterton tied privacy to property, and why he said the Englishman's castle was too often hardly even a house The bees, the beavers, and G.K. Chesterton's fundamental principle of private property How Auken's 2030 city matches the servile state that G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc warned about The one thing absent from a utopia built on shared living rooms: marriage, children, family Why "having nothing and possessing all things" means the opposite of what socialism offers Resources Mentioned: Ida Auken, "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better" (World Economic Forum, 2016) G.K. Chesterton, "Prohibition and Property" (The New Witness, October 7, 1921) G.K. Chesterton, "The Real Nature of Property (Again)" (The Illustrated London News, February 16, 1924) G.K. Chesterton, "More About Divorce" (The Illustrated London News, September 2, 1922) G.K. Chesterton, "The Peril of the Impersonal" (G.K.'s Weekly, November 9, 1929) Chapters: 00:00: Welcome 02:38: Ida Auken's 2030 04:24: A living room used for business meetings 06:22: The people left outside the city 08:05: "No real privacy" 11:57: Renting by another name 13:49: G.K. Chesterton: privacy is like property 17:36: The hive and the home 21:19: The servile state 25:55: Bees, beavers, and the neglected commons 28:42: Divorce, marriage, and the telling pronoun 35:58: Having nothing and possessing all things FOLLOW US Instagram Facebook X SUPPORT Donate Shop Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios
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