{"id":38993,"date":"2018-12-04T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/?p=38993"},"modified":"2018-12-05T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:11:15","slug":"lecture-130-a-primer-in-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesterton.org\/store\/lecture-130-a-primer-in-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture 130: A Primer in Paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Black and White<\/i>, 1903-1904<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a rising young journalist, looking to find reasons to submit anything anywhere, G.K. Chesterton was reading a copy of a weekly review, when he\u00a0was struck by the title of the publication:\u00a0<i>Black and White<\/i>.\u00a0He wondered vaguely what would happen if he \u201ccould succeed in proving that black was white.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I should, I suppose, be hurled from the office, have a brief career of glory, and die by the hand of a subscriber. But this question has often been brought before me, because I have been accused, by seven different persons, of wishing to prove that black is white\u2014a thing I have never desired, but which I now feel inclined to attempt. At any rate, a few remarks on the nature of paradox (as it is called), on the general philosophical theory that black is white, I may be permitted to make.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The simplest and commonest of all the causes which lead to the charge of \u201cmere paradox\u201d being slung about as it is, is one fundamental assumption. Everybody takes it for granted that universal and ordinary arrangements, historic institutions, daily habits are reasonable. They are good, they are sensible, they are holy and splendid often enough, but they are not reasonable. They are themselves paradoxes; paradox is built into the very foundations of human affairs.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then began a series of articles under the general heading \u201cThat Black is White.\u201d The titles of the essays were:<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That Black Is, in a General Sense, White<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That Respectable People Are More Interesting Than Bohemians<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That Bigoted People Have No Beliefs<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That the Simple Life Is an Artificial Nuisance<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That\u00a0Humour\u00a0Is an Overrated Quality<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>That series was followed by another series under the\u00a0heading, \u201cThe Creed of a Credulous Person\u201d in which he gives an account \u201cof the funny things I believe\u201d such as fairies, Santa Claus, talking animals, and the idea \u201cthat all things called inanimate are really animate.\u201d He argues that it is better to be credulous than to be a skeptic, because to refuse to be \u201ctaken in\u201d is to refuse to see the inside of anything. The skeptic \u201cwould rather be outside everything than inside Heaven.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is held that to believe in fairies, griffins, vampires and such\u00a0things has a disquieting effect. Nothing could be more mistaken. It is the people who believe in these things who are sane and ordinary and eat large breakfasts and sleep like logs. Who\u00a0are\u00a0the people who believe in the fairies? Rustics, six feet high, as\u00a0calm as cows; mountaineers, who hang to precipices laughing; hunters, who slay gigantic beasts; kings and warriors, whose hands and heads are steady in the\u00a0topsy-turvydom\u00a0of battle; and above all, children. Children, who of most people have most power of throwing off morbidity and of laughing through tears. Rustics, fighting men and babies do not go mad; they are kept from that by their belief in the supernatural. Professors go mad, ingenious inquirers go mad, philosophers go mad, psychologists go mad, young and earnest suburban agnostics go mad and take laudanum.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is likely that these essays established the young Chesterton&#8217;s reputation as a purveyor of paradox. It was thought that he was being paradoxical merely for effect. No one, surely, could actually believe that Chesterton actually believed the things he was saying.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>But there is a point to his paradoxes. He claims he is \u201cpointing out an element of mere blunder and blank mistake in many of the current assertions,\u201d that he is\u00a0contradicting people and raising difficulties to show that many of our accepted ideas are nonsense.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of them, to take a random example, is the perpetual modern nonsense whether we are egoists or altruists; the only answer to which question is to fell the inquirer to the earth. It is assumed, in the face of patent common-sense, that there is some kind of interior and natural opposition between enjoying yourself and enjoying other people. The pert and ethical modern altruist says, \u201cThou shalt love thy\u00a0neighbour\u00a0rather than thyself.\u201d Of course, it is perfectly obvious that upon any one particular occasion a man might be distracted as to whether he should please himself or please his fellow-creatures, just as he might be distracted about whether he should be in time for the first act of an opera, or see out the tail-end of a sunset. But this is a merely accidental opposition, it is not an integral one; there is no intrinsic inconsistency between happiness for others and for oneself any more than there is between operas and sunsets.<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see in these essays a foreshadowing of the arguments that will appear four years later in\u00a0<i>Orthodoxy<\/i>: that poetry and imagination are sane, and that isolated logic can be maddening. The main theme? \u201cThe age needs, first and foremost, to be startled; to be taught the nature of wonder.\u201d<span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was a final series of essays in\u00a0<i>Black and White<\/i>, exploring the decline of the amateur, from \u201cThe Decline of the Amateur Dancer\u201d to that of the amateur actor, critic, educator,\u00a0politician, and soldier. 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