G.K. Chesterton & the Useless Things ~ The Imaginative Conservative

G.K. Chesterton & the Useless Things ~ The Imaginative Conservative

G.K. Chesterton once said, “The opposite of employment is not unemployment, but independence.”  Employment, or work, is activity done for some utilitarian end. So, when he says the opposite of employment is independence, he is saying that true independence (or freedom) involves doing things for their own sake. Things done for their own sake he called “useless.” Doing things for their own sake he called freedom. Doing everything for a wage is not…