Friday, October 19, 2012  Why Elfland?  As some will note, the
title of this blog evokes ideas of Tolkein, forests, ecological
perfection.  It also has an older connotation, from Gilbert
Chesterton.  I do not generally agree with Chesterton on the
supremacy of Christianity or Catholicism but I find him to be a
thought-provoking author nonetheless.  In his book, "Orthodoxy"
(1908) he included a chapter entitled "Ethics of Elfland" and
which begins with the following paragraph I find to be
inspirational   Elfland then is a rejection of practical
politics over ideals, but that doesn't make it impractical, only
that practical politics must serve the ideals and not the other
ways around.  I also, as many Distributists have following
Chesterton, reject Liberalism (in the Lockean sense of which
Chesterton wrote, not the partisan way it is used today in
modern American society)  for reasons I will leave to another
post.  Elfland is the land where agrarianism meets
environmentalism and where social justice coexists wi