#clownworld

We shall never return to social sanity til we begin at the beginning. We must start where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child.

As it is, we begin where history ends, or, rather, where disjointed journalism ends. We stop suddenly with the accidental truncation of today’s news; and judge everything by the particular muddle of the moment. Ours is a sociology of snapshots; and snapshots always fix human figures in postures not only silly but stiff.

- G.K. Chesterton, May 3, 1919, Illustrated London News