bkmk
Highly recommend The Screwtape Letters Narrated by John Cleese. Or just read it. It’s as relevant today as ever.
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That Hideous Strength
I had no idea! Adding to reading list. Astonish how some saw this all, and tried, oh they tried...Ayn Raynd, George Orwell...
One of my favorite books...I have the audiobook version narrated by John Cleese...:)
I think this one deals with what is happening this last year:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
~ C.S. Lewis
I was doing my yard work. At one point my wife came out of the house and said, “What are you doing? You’ve been standing the same spot for 5 minutes.”
“I’m listening to Screwtape Letters.”
“Got it.”
It is something that I could not just read (listen to) I had to study each sentence. Truly a favorite.
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reward the losers & punish the best = ruin
reward the parasites & punish the producers = ruin
Excellen5 read, plus the PDF of “Screwtape Proposes a Toast”! Sooooo tempting to fwd to the SJW I work with, who told me only people being canceled are those who deserve it.
Thank you very much!
I feel this way about books written by the greats like C.S. Lewis (and Fulton Sheen and Frank Sheed, for that matter. You can insert your own favorite writer here). The heartbreaking beauty and the wisdom of these books are timeless, but it seems like you would have to pull a gun on someone to make them read them. And even if you got people to read them, it is increasingly doubtful they would accept, understand, or even care what they are saying. This goes especially for our poorly educated and morally malformed youth, but today's adults are increasingly intellectually lazy and morally compromised as well.
I do continue to recommend these books and others to those who can possibly benefit from them (to not do so when given the chance would be like refusing to medicine to a sick man even though he denies he's sick). But it is a shame these works are not made more accessible to the masses who in this time of universal deceit, need them more than ever.
Ah, Lewis! Haven’t read him in quite some time. As the world descends into madness, maybe he can provide some sanity!
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in the world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” – C.S. Lewis in Mere Christianity
Bkmk
Excellent article.
I read this every decade- I need to be reminded of how easy it is to get persuaded by evil.
Great article- thanks.
It wasn’t that hard, if you understand progressives.
BTTT.
One of my favorite books. I’ve often recommended it to young people as a primer in how the devil works.