Over 100 year ago G. K. Chesterton wrote:

“Now this is the attitude which I attack.  It is the huge heresy of precedent.  It is the view that because we have got into a mess we must grow messier to suit it; that because we have taken a wrong turn some time ago we must go forward and not backwards; that because we have lost our way, we must loose our map also and because we have missed our ideal we must forget it.”

We are bombarded today with problems, fears, information and research that continue to increase our financial, emotional and physical security problems.

Experts and supposed leaders force us to believe that the total answer lies in creating more rules and charging more taxes to ‘make’ individuals conform and behave as the experts believe is right.

Over the past 30 years society has acquired more diseases, more emotional and more financial insecurity than ever before.

We must have taken some wrong turns to get to where we are. And we will never achieve the harmony, justice and security we are entitled to, unless we re-access our present dilemma with an eye on how this has occurred.

Perhaps it is time that as individuals, we read and take note of what Chesterton wrote 100 years ago. Perhaps it is time to rethink our values, behaviour and priorities and make the turns that will lead us to the map we appear to have lost. The map that will lead us back to the ideals and the wisdom that worked so well 30 to 50 years ago.

Good luck in your personal journey……Mario