The modern thinker is a man who combines ‘an expansive and exhaustive reason with a contracted common sense.’ Thus, Chesterton suggested that our so-called Modern-Age will someday be referred to as ‘The Muddle Ages.’

-Dale Ahlquist, The Complete Thinker, p. 99

To think, Chesterton didn’t live to see Postmodernism…

The phrase ‘Postmodern’ has really become passé anyhow; therefore, until I find something better, I believe I will start referring to our time as the Muddle Ages. It is certainly more true of our time than it was of Chesterton’s. He didn’t have to deal with people who got their knowledge from Wikipedia and expect a commercial every 8 minutes (even in dialogue). To me the phrase can represent the muddle of a time in which thinking tends to be quite broad and shallow, a mile wide and an inch deep; or a bunch of people wandering around all over the place without any sense of direction. The phrase is a keeper.