David Warren is a true conservative. Unlike your typical weekend conservative who looks back on upon the 1950s with some nostalgia, Warren wants a return to the Middle Ages! Booya.
We need a revolution in our attitude toward work. This is because the notion that we must "work to live" is only suitable to animals. The proposed Christian alternative is "live to work" - in the image of the creator, which is to say, creatively, "for the sake of doing well what is well worth doing."
AM: Remember the good ol' days? Back when peons, legally tied to the land, worked 12 hour days doing manual labor in subsistance conditions in service of some fuedal Lord in exchange for protection from bandits and foreign invaders. That was honest work. The peasants weren't doing it for the money, or "to live," but rather for the after life! Indeed, a more noble reason: the knowledge that they were being watched over and judged by God; and that they would have a place in heaven if they only knew their place on earth. This had to be true. After all, the priest told them. It was in the bible. Ok, they couldn't actually read the bible, but the priest could read; and he wouldn't lie, right? Mental and physical slavery, exploitation and fear. But at least they had values and feared God. In other words, "they lived to work."
