G K Chesterton

What's Wrong With The World (Annotated) G K Chesterton

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The great writer, journalist, polemicist, and intellectual who was Gilbert Keith Chesterton (London, 1874- Buckinghamshire 1936) made this same statement that gives the title to this article throughout his extensive work, but specifically through a small book. sociological who titled What`s wrong with the world. That a man almost closer to the XIX century than to the XXI century can give us some keys or even lucid ideas to face our chaotic modernized world today, it may seem more like science fiction. But his statements - not politically correct even in his time - do not fail to demonstrate, in addition to a sublime ingenuity, a great capacity for abstraction and an encyclopedic knowledge of the reality in which he is immersed that makes him speak with an astonishing authority. Obviously, in some of his statements, without ever becoming a fanatic even though he faithfully defends the values he believes in, he does show that he is the son of his time. As in his vision of the archaic role of women and his position on the female vote. But it is that we are all human and we cannot judge an era from the mirror of the reality in which we live in ours. Watching every day on television news shows how ministers from advanced countries like ours equate doing politics with throwing stones, insulting and humiliating, or simply having to keep silent,