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From a polemic in The Spectator: "There is a huge cast of well-paid people, from management consultants to economic advisers, whose entire salaries are earned
by scholia 7y ago
From a polemic in The Spectator:
"There is a huge cast of well-paid people, from management consultants to economic advisers, whose entire salaries are earned by ripping out Chesterton’s fences. Interestingly, these are mostly male-dominated industries (men are more prone to narrow systematising than women). Silicon Valley, which is overwhelmingly male, is possibly the worst offender of all. The very fact that a fence is over ten years old, requires atoms in its manufacture or creates employment for human beings is reason enough for them to want to get rid of it."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/chestertons-fence-and-the-idiots-who-rip-it-out/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/chestertons-fence-and-th...
- barrkel 7y agoAnd of course the fence he's talking about is print advertising. He's pretty selective about what he calls fences, though fences are a universal argument against change.