“The sun may breed maggots in a dead dog; but it is essential for such a liberation of life that the dog should be unconscious or (to say the least of it) absent-minded. Broadly speaking, you may call the thing corruption, if you happen to like dogs. You may call it evolution, if you happen to like maggots. In either case, it is what happens to things if you leave them alone.” — G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers
A dead dog left in the sun does not stay a dead dog. It succumbs to the outside force of the sun and its own internal corruption. Enzymes and bacteria that once kept the dog alive now work against it to decompose it. The change is considered a corruption for those who love dogs, but an emancipation for those who love maggots.
Evolution is the love of lesser things. It delights in seeing dead dogs for the sake of liberating maggots. It is rotten through and through and is a good reminder to never assume too much.
Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Drift is the natural direction of inattention. The slip attends the inattention. Nothing good flourishes by accident. That which will not heed will not remain. It cannot. Anything that is not intentional is inconsequential. Because the nature of sin has introduced a radical corruption into the world, all things must live by faith or die in unbelief.
"Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing." — Robert Conquest's 2nd Law of Politics
If you are not striving to define yourself, you are being defined by something else. If you are not aggressively asserting your priorities, you are passively being assigned someone else's.
"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” — G.K. Chesterton
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