In 2016, Danish politician Ida Auken described the year 2030 as a happy place to live: no car, no house, no appliances, no privacy, and a living room lent out for business meetings whenever she steps away. Joe Grabowski and Grettelyn Darkey read Ida Auken's essay beside G.K. Chesterton, who had already named the bargain nearly a century before it was offered—that privacy is the mark of property, and that a people stripped of both are being fitted for a hive instead of a home. 

In This Episode:

  • Why G.K. Chesterton tied privacy to property, and why he said the Englishman's castle was too often hardly even a house
  • The bees, the beavers, and G.K. Chesterton's fundamental principle of private property
  • How Auken's 2030 city matches the servile state that G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc warned about
  • The one thing absent from a utopia built on shared living rooms: marriage, children, family
  • Why "having nothing and possessing all things" means the opposite of what socialism offers

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Chapters:

  • 00:00: Welcome
  • 02:38: Ida Auken's 2030
  • 04:24: A living room used for business meetings
  • 06:22: The people left outside the city
  • 08:05: "No real privacy"
  • 11:57: Renting by another name
  • 13:49: G.K. Chesterton: privacy is like property
  • 17:36: The hive and the home
  • 21:19: The servile state
  • 25:55: Bees, beavers, and the neglected commons
  • 28:42: Divorce, marriage, and the telling pronoun
  • 35:58: Having nothing and possessing all things

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