tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post3778157111204074226..comments2024-03-25T09:01:20.997-07:00Comments on Diary of an Autodidact: The Flying Inn by G. K. ChestertonDiary of an Autodidacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11849157548643091986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-59637411705397299512012-09-17T08:59:03.954-07:002012-09-17T08:59:03.954-07:00I knew I was forgetting something. I should have m...I knew I was forgetting something. I should have mentioned the songs and poems! I agree with you on the ultra-primitivist idea as well. Despite 200 years of research and observation debunking the idea of the noble savage, we are still enthralled with the idea. <br /><br />I cannot tell you how much it thrills me to discover someone else who has read this. Diary of an Autodidacthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849157548643091986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4051826042602269061.post-42227421911717960112012-09-17T08:44:45.752-07:002012-09-17T08:44:45.752-07:00Ahh, it's been way too long since I read this ...Ahh, it's been way too long since I read this one. (I love the poems in it, too: "Ivywood, Lord Ivywood, he rots the oak as ivy would . . . " "They haven't got no noses, the fallen sons of Eve . . . ")<br /><br />I concur on the dietary points. Gluttony is not just the sin of eating too much; it is elevating the body and its needs out of its place. Diet and exercise and abstention can be their own form of gluttony when they become an end instead of a means. <br /><br />In addition to the elitist attitude I am highly skeptical of the ultra-primitivist attitude of many current diet fads--as if the discovery of agriculture, or fire, is where human beings got off track. Chesterton had a deep appreciation for human beings, which included human progress. I can't find the exact quote, but it was something along the lines of "If you go out to the wildest meadow, you will find the simplest and most natural child playing at railway trains." Particularly appropriate when "the simple life" has become its own form of elitism.Queen of Carrotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03193758647591339890noreply@blogger.com