I feel a bit mindblown. I used to have pictures of CS Lewis and Helen Garner stuck up on my filing cabinet 20 years ago. I thought of them as my writing parents. I haven't read anything by Clive for years, and I have read The Abolition of Man in the past, but reading this excerpt now makes me realise I have since diminished him in my own eyes somehow to someone smaller, to a category on that stupid stupid left/right bird that has done so much damage to my brain, kept me riding on the same stupid train track, being a moron along with everyone else, all endlessly arguing as we travel in the one direction we can.
Thanks for this. Need a Feldenkrais session to recalibrate this latest example of how much more shit my mind is than 20 years ago 👍
The picture in this post of masked people standing at marked lines is perfectly illustrative of the single command underlying the regime of ‘power’: OBEY.
We recently reread the ‘space trilogy’, gathering some quotes that demonstrate how his novels carry forward the same understanding as his non-fiction. He was a seer.
Indeed, the photo is a perfect illustration of "conditioned material" unwittingly at the behest of the appetities of the "no-longer-human" overlords. Technocracy's utopia.
Thanks for the houghtful piece and good to learn more about Lewis' deep awareness. To your closer i would add a nuance of working WITH the world/Nature/Mother Earth', which leans toward, at first, some discipline to conform to the Natural Law/Tao yet also open to the immediacy of responding to all that in the moment. Or in layman's terms, as attributed to Mark Twain, “If you don’t like our weather just wait a minute!” One of the Tao's basic messages is: Go with the flow.
So you are a conspiracy theorist after all! And you even tapped in to the fact that the plans were already laid out more than 100 years ago.
Thanks for illuminating Lewis' work. I read "That Hideous Strenght" in high school. I would classify it as "Conspiracy Fiction" from my vague recollection of it, though of course I didn't think in those terms back then.
The Chronicles of Narnia were among my favorite books.
This series of essays is a powerful call to consciousness.
The word ‘domination’ stands for the turn away from natural life. Tao is the unnameable life that allows domination to implode under its own weight, taking with it the whole apparatus of ‘power’ that will leave much disorder in its wake even as what remains whole rebuilds from the root source, the Great Mystery.
I may be stepping in it up to my hip waders by voicing a slightly different viewpoint, but honestly, I don't believe that Sir Francis Bacon's optimism was naive at all... in his "The New Atlantis" he foretells of the "scientific conquest of nature", but what is left for the reader to discern by implication is that his foretelling is that of the scientific conquest of "human nature"... and I believe that Lewis had rightly descerned that specificity... What else can better illustrate post-humanism? Am I too far off track?
I feel a bit mindblown. I used to have pictures of CS Lewis and Helen Garner stuck up on my filing cabinet 20 years ago. I thought of them as my writing parents. I haven't read anything by Clive for years, and I have read The Abolition of Man in the past, but reading this excerpt now makes me realise I have since diminished him in my own eyes somehow to someone smaller, to a category on that stupid stupid left/right bird that has done so much damage to my brain, kept me riding on the same stupid train track, being a moron along with everyone else, all endlessly arguing as we travel in the one direction we can.
Thanks for this. Need a Feldenkrais session to recalibrate this latest example of how much more shit my mind is than 20 years ago 👍
Brave words. Thanks.
The picture in this post of masked people standing at marked lines is perfectly illustrative of the single command underlying the regime of ‘power’: OBEY.
We recently reread the ‘space trilogy’, gathering some quotes that demonstrate how his novels carry forward the same understanding as his non-fiction. He was a seer.
Indeed, the photo is a perfect illustration of "conditioned material" unwittingly at the behest of the appetities of the "no-longer-human" overlords. Technocracy's utopia.
Thanks for the houghtful piece and good to learn more about Lewis' deep awareness. To your closer i would add a nuance of working WITH the world/Nature/Mother Earth', which leans toward, at first, some discipline to conform to the Natural Law/Tao yet also open to the immediacy of responding to all that in the moment. Or in layman's terms, as attributed to Mark Twain, “If you don’t like our weather just wait a minute!” One of the Tao's basic messages is: Go with the flow.
obviously i meant "thoughtful"
So you are a conspiracy theorist after all! And you even tapped in to the fact that the plans were already laid out more than 100 years ago.
Thanks for illuminating Lewis' work. I read "That Hideous Strenght" in high school. I would classify it as "Conspiracy Fiction" from my vague recollection of it, though of course I didn't think in those terms back then.
The Chronicles of Narnia were among my favorite books.
This series of essays is a powerful call to consciousness.
The word ‘domination’ stands for the turn away from natural life. Tao is the unnameable life that allows domination to implode under its own weight, taking with it the whole apparatus of ‘power’ that will leave much disorder in its wake even as what remains whole rebuilds from the root source, the Great Mystery.
I may be stepping in it up to my hip waders by voicing a slightly different viewpoint, but honestly, I don't believe that Sir Francis Bacon's optimism was naive at all... in his "The New Atlantis" he foretells of the "scientific conquest of nature", but what is left for the reader to discern by implication is that his foretelling is that of the scientific conquest of "human nature"... and I believe that Lewis had rightly descerned that specificity... What else can better illustrate post-humanism? Am I too far off track?
Seems exactly right to me. Now it’s at least the two of us!
And I find myself in excellent company!