{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"&quot;Millions Now Alive Will Never Live&quot;: G.K. Chesterton's Warning","description":"Some of the G.K. Chesterton in the new issue of Gilbert isn't collected anywhere else. Grettelyn Darkey and Joe Grabowski open with a 1933 essay on why the two usual arguments against communism fail, and why those arguments push the young toward communism rather than away from it. Then comes Chesterton on shapeless art, and a leisure state run by robots that he could only call all wrong. In This Episode:  Why G.K. Chesterton thought both common ways of arguing with communists were wrong: insults win no one over, and sneering at a young person's ideals only sounds like a greedy old man forbidding them to be anything else Chesterton's alternative: appeal to the natural desire for a home and a plot of land, and show that real private property protects everyone's fair share Why, for Chesterton, the opposite of art is shapelessness rather than ugliness Chesterton's 1927 claim that films are more unreal than portraits because they are more like life, read against today's AI-generated actors A blended Chesterton essay on a leisure state where robots do all the work, and his warning that &quot;Millions now alive will never live&quot;  Resources Mentioned:  Gilbert Magazine Become a member of the Chesterton Society and get Gilbert Magazine! Justice &amp;amp; Charity by Fulton J. Sheen  &quot;Awakening the Sense of Wonder&quot; by G.K. Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, March 19, 1927  Uncommon Sense: G.K. Chesterton vs. Communism and Socialism  FOLLOW US  Instagram Facebook X  SUPPORT  Consider making a donation Visit our Shop  Chapters:  00:00: A new issue of Gilbert 01:15: Dale Ahlquist's finds from the archives 04:11: &quot;How Not to Do It&quot; (1933) 08:32: The argument from liberty and private property 10:33: Fulton Sheen and the third way 15:08: More from this issue of Gilbert 17:52: The Venus de Milo on the trombone 19:50: Shapelessness, the antithesis of art 26:35: Waxworks, films, and Felix the Cat 28:53: Robots and the leisure state 32:19: &quot;Can't you see? It's all wrong&quot; 37:39: &quot;Millions now alive will never live&quot;  Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios ","author_name":"Uncommon Sense","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/23918\/site","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/43184238\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/207143903"}