Writing in 1905, Chesterton criticized his contemporaries for manifesting a "total levity on the subject of cosmic philosophy." He added, "The modern idea is that cosmic truth is so unimportant that it cannot matter what any one says."

1) Do you find this attitude in your personal interactions? That is, do the people you deal with reject the notion of Universal Truth (upper-case T), in favor of a multitude of individually-derived truths (lower-case t)? (Note, just by the way: the "autonomous self" is one of Percy's main targets.)

2) On a scale of 1 to 5, how persuasive did you find Chesterton's defense of the importance of orthodoxy? 1 = totally unpersuasive . . . Chesterton's a friggin' idiot; 5 = totally persuasive . . . probably the best argument on the topic ever made.

350 words minimum; due midnight before class on 24 October.