In the final years of his life Chesterton predicted that the absolutes of right and wrong would become blurred, religion publicly condemned and that we would care more for animals than babies and would worship sex while mocking love. We would, he said, be governed by whim and fashion. “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
