C.S. Lewis Predicted All of This
The Abolition of Man
This thing which I have called for convenience the Tao, and which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of value. It is the sole source of all value judgments. If it is rejected, all value is rejected. If any value is retained, it is retained. The effort to refute it and raise a new system of value in its place is self-contradictory. There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgment of value in the history of the world. What purport to be new systems or (as they now call them) ‘ideologies’, all consist of fragments from the Tao itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation, yet still owing to the Tao and to it alone such validity as they posses…The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.
— C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
In 1943, C.S. Lewis wrote a short book that most people have never heard of. It wasn’t Narnia. It wasn’t Mere Christianity. It was The Abolition of Man, and it predicted almost everything happening right now with more precision than anything written since.
Lewis saw it coming: the dismantling of objective values, the rise of technocratic control, the conditioning of human beings into something less than human. He called it eighty years ago. We’re living it now.
This is why you should read it. And why you should watch my video on it below.
Thanks,
Nick