EMG channels Chesterton on toy weapons
Well, quotes actually:
Chesterton bellows from the grave:
When this progress has gone on for a century or two, it might begin to dawn on people that there was something wrong with their moral principle. What is wrong with their moral principle is that it is immoral. Arms, like every other adventure of art of man, have two sides according as they are invoked for the infliction or the defiance of wrong. They have also an element of real poetry and an element of realistic and therefore repulsive prose. The child’s symbolic sword and bow are simply the poetry without the prose; the good without the evil. The toy sword is the abstraction and the emanation of the heroic, apart from all its horrible accidents. It is the soul of the sword, that will never be stained with blood. edward michael george
Myself, I was just hit with the soul of the water hose transfigured through the jet setting of the nozzle. I trust neither of my boys will start WWIII simply because they managed to provoke such a reaction from their father.
Written by jay on July 19th, 2007 with
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