tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post917956093312171755..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Jim Manzi's "Uncontrolled"Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-27409025312390973992012-05-04T21:34:24.358-04:002012-05-04T21:34:24.358-04:00Chesterton: Napoleon of Notting Hill
The human r...Chesterton: Napoleon of Notting Hill<br /><br />The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children’s games since the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games to which it is most attached is called, “Keep tomorrow dark,” and which is also named…“Cheat the Prophet.” The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. They then go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.<br /><br />For human beings, being children, have the childish wilfulness and the childish secrecy. And they never have from the beginning of the world done what the wise men have seen to be inevitable. They stoned the false prophets, it is said; but they could have stoned true prophets with a greater and juster enjoyment.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com