{"id":16455,"date":"2016-01-01T16:11:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jh.southloophvac.com\/?p=16455"},"modified":"2016-01-01T16:11:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T22:11:53","slug":"new-years-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/new-years-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"G.K.&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.\u201d \u2013 <a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/G-K-Chesterton\/112768975401008\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=112768975401008\">G. K. Chesterton<\/a>\u2019s Weekly, August 18, 1928<\/p>\n<p>But isn&#8217;t it more noble and good to\u00a0exercise of freedom to discover what our ancestors have on our own ability? I think theoretically the answer is yes. But, is that reasonable to expect anyone one person to discover thousands of years of experience in one lifetime? I think not. Why not trust first and confirm or deny when you have your own experience, like you did when someone taught you how to drive?<\/p>\n<p>Against from Chesterton:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, \u201cI don\u2019t see the use of this; let us clear it away.\u201d To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: \u201cIf you don\u2019t see the use of it, I certainly won\u2019t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Each passing year brings you more experience in life. Can we not also say that it brings more collective experience for mankind if individuals hand it on [traditio]?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.\u201d \u2013 G. K. Chesterton\u2019s Weekly, August 18, 1928 But isn&#8217;t it more noble and good to\u00a0exercise of freedom to discover what our ancestors have on our [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10,107,126],"class_list":["post-16455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/01\/image7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonhaines.com\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}