C.S. Lewis Saw The Direction Things Were Heading Back In 1958

Twitter ^ | 08/21/21 | Seth Dillon

[Enlightened1]

C.S. Lewis saw the direction things were heading back in 1958, when he warned of the rise of a scientocracy — a government driven by science that would offer salvation from danger and illness at the expense of personal freedom.

 

From The Magician's Twin:

[BradyLS]

Starship Troopers, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, and Stranger In A Strange Land should be sold as a boxed set.

[BradyLS]

“Once you pay the Dane-Geld, you never get rid of the Dane.”

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

How eerie in hindsight

[nutmeg]

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[Rockingham]

Tolkien rejected the idea that LOTR was parable. He aimed instead at literature informed by both old Nordic mythology and Christian teachings.

[Az Joe]

Yes, that was the more well known warning. I posted the fairly, unknown in comparison, other warning.

[grey_whiskers]

Try also reading

Screwtape Proposes A Toast

and

Lilies That Fester

...actually, read *all* the essays there.

[grey_whiskers]

That Hideous Strength was my favorite book in high school.

[antceecee]

Thank you. I need to revisit CS Lewis. I wonder if Hillsdale College has a course on his writings?

[montag813]

Tolkien rejected the idea that LOTR was parable. He aimed instead at literature informed by both old Nordic mythology and Christian teachings.

I know. He has said that forever. I don't believe it.

[amihow]

Do you think one big message in Abolition was the teaching of the young there were no objective truths

[Alvin Diogenes]

Bookmark. (Thanks for posting this.)

[AndyTheBear]

Well it was his starting point that there was a trend in education that conditioned the young to assume that value judgements were mere sentiment and it was foolish to hold values valid, but rather one should be a clever chap and see through them all. Not that they were being taught that as a reasoned philosophy, but rather that they were conditioned to assume it without really giving the matter critical attention.

However he went beyond this point and I would not consider it his main point.

[dadfly]

bookmark.

[arthurus]

James Burnham- The Managerial Revolution 1941

[Rockingham]

Tolkein’s view gains credence if one compares his fiction with that of his friend C.S. Lewis, which was expressly intended as an expresssion of Lewis’s Christian faith. Moreover, in the Asia Times, their columnist Spengler made an interesting case for Tolkein’s LOTR as an anti-epic refutation of Wagner’s ring cycle appropriation of Nordic myths into a pagan creed justifying extreme German nationalism. Indeed, Tolkein’s massive accumulation of notebooks and ancillary background stories shows little of Christianity but a deep engagement with old Norse language and literature.

[laplata]

And now the Left couldn’t care less about the Military Industrial Complex because their guys are in charge.

[PfromHoGro]

“Those are our jets now.”

[laplata]

Yep. I remember Rush going over that.