The Outline Of Sanity, G. K. Chesterton
The Outline Of Sanity, G. K. Chesterton
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The Outline Of Sanity

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Narrator: Seth Trey

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/08/2024


Synopsis

The experiments of both Capitalism and Communism are almost complete, and they both lead to one big organization controlling everything you do.
In 1925, when this book was first published, it was true, and it is even truer today.
If you desire an alternative, consider this book, which considers Distributism, a philosophy whereby the actual people own the actual means of production, and produce and sustain themselves with it.
A philosophy summed up in Chesterton's famous proposal of "Three acres and a cow" as being catalyst to an ideal peasant state.
For such a simple idea, it has proven very contrary to the ideas of those in power, which is to say, to those who want power.
But for the rest of us, for the sane humans who desire peace and liberty, this book is a call to action against monopoly and the inevitability of global standardization, which the magazines call the Supply Chain and the Bible might call Babel and Babylon.
Narrated in an accent based upon Chesterton's own, this performance expresses Chesterton's words as he himself might have, delivering them to an audience of his time.

About G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most influential English writers of the twentieth century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography,Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton is well known for his reasoned apologetics, and even those who disagree with him have recognized the universal appeal of such works as Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man. Chesterton routinely referred to himself as an "orthodox" Christian and came to identify such a position with Catholicism more and more, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton's "friendly enemy" according to Time magazine, said of him, "He was a man of colossal genius."


Reviews

Goodreads review by G.R. on February 05, 2017

This book certainly makes you stop and ponder; even more so when you realise that not much, if anything has changed since it was written over 90 years ago. Corporate monoliths are alive and well; advertisers still “... tell people in a bullying way that they must ‘Do It Now’ when they need not do it......more

Goodreads review by Bryan on November 15, 2012

Although Chesterton wrote this book in the early twentieth century, it remains just as relevant today in a world where we continue to see massive consolidation, corporations too big to fail, relentless standardization of the products that shape our lives, and the increasing machine mentality to make......more

Goodreads review by Lance on April 25, 2013

A great primer on Distributism, to be prefaced by Rerum Novarum.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on September 03, 2010

This is the type of book that changes how you think about the world. This book asks a very simple question: are you willing to give up your freedom for security? Chesterton shows how both Capitalism and Socialism take freedom from the individual for the promise of security (most often false security......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on August 25, 2021

If you follow my Goodreads, you might have a sense of what I'm up to right now with all these distributist-aligned books. This is, of course, a classic in that space, elucidating what Chesterton saw as the major problems of the economy and society and putting forth some broad solutions classified as......more