This is the introduction to a series of ten blogs focused on ten things I hate about my hometown, Crookston, Minnesota. I was inspired to write this series by the following quote from the work "Othodoxy" by G.K. Chesterton on loving the world enough to change it. If you like this quote, follow this blog for my Top Ten. Feel free to comment as well.
"What we need is not the cold acceptance of the world as a compromise, but some way in which we can heartily hate and heartily love it. We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surley contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage to which we can return at evening.
No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world...(but) can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing?"
