or it is no virtue at all. -- G.K. Chesterton
This quote must float around out there. Facebook, Pinterest, words in meme format. It would seem to work well, to inspire for a few minutes, but Chesterton has little in common with trite whit and emotional appeals.
What would it look like if Chesterton’s ‘meaning of love’ had a visual example? A photo beside a like button. Imagine a girls arm decorated with track marks trending online. Orphaned kids brushing there teeth at night. You that time at your worst. No retro filters. No false idealism. Just images which capture what should be out greatest affection. The truth is, we don’t love any of that at all. And according to Chesterton we may be in trouble concerning virtue. Of course, even worse, it really wasn’t Chesterton at all who first said this was it?
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