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Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by Carl Hasz

Carl Hasz — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:46:33 +0000

the most frightening insight is the public education and the power of media not only robs parents of their ability to teach, it prevents the children from ever maturing to the point that they could be called moral agents. The middle class is like a boat without a rudder; with education and media, consumerism is our religion and the only equality that really exists is the quality of being self serving. Obviously, those who serve themselves best might have success based on nothing more than indifference to principles that a moral agent finds meaningful, but the education and media render the individuals as ammoral agents…the new catch word, some kind of super perspective, where you sit with lofty indifference at the top, but what is ammorality, it is not something the intellecuals and elitists pontificate about, it is the merely being in the state of having your moral agency arrested.

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt. III | Front Porch Republic

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:33:12 +0000

[...] evil by celebrating pride and envy as it fosters tyranny. Lewis’s demonic Screwtape, this time in“Screwtape Proposes a Toast,” once again explains quite eloquently how this very thing has happened historically, even in the [...]

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by Netherlands V. Free Speech: Geert Wilders 1, Ordinary Dutchmen Nil. | Popehat

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 01:53:53 +0000

[...] that Wilders is a politician is the reason he was prosecuted in the first place. In the words of another leading politician: Is it not pretty to notice how “democracy” (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the [...]

Comment on THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS by C. S. LEWIS by “The Horror Of The Same Old Thing” « www.jimjacobson.org

“The Horror Of The Same Old Thing” « www.jimjacobson.org — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:16:33 +0000

[...] Here is a link to both an audio as well as a text of chapter 25. Full book text. [...]

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by Marxism: The Inequity of equal outcome

Marxism: The Inequity of equal outcome — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:08:54 +0000

[...] “Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose… You are to use the word purely as an incantation; if you like, purely for its selling power. It is a name they venerate. And of course it is connected with the political ideal that men should be equally treated [equality before law which secures equal rights]. You then make a stealthy transition in their minds from this political ideal to a factual belief that all men are equal [in outcome — regardless of creativity and labor]… You remember how one of the Greek Dictators… sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals.” C.S. Lewis — Screwtape Proposes a Toast [...]

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by Devil safely turns over his duties to celebs, political and entertainment

Devil safely turns over his duties to celebs, political and entertainment — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:28:57 +0000

[...] others downward. C.S. Lewis brilliantly puts this explanation on the lips of his favorite demon, Screwtape:As the great sinners grow fewer, and the majority lose all individuality, the great sinners become [...]

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by Who Is Farinata? « still crapulent

Who Is Farinata? « still crapulent — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:38:10 +0000

[...] all this “who” nonsense come from? well, as i was leafing through C.S. Lewis’ “Screwtape Proposes A Toast” (which i haven’t read, nor its precursor, but believe me it’s on the list), this [...]

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by The Writer

The Writer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:08:30 +0000

Very nicely done. I find it intreguing how much Lewis “got right,” as well as how insightful his writing tends to be. Thanks for your additions and perspective.

Comment on Screwtape Proposes a Toast by Menifee Union School District, CA, bans Merriam Webster Dictionary due to complaint by parent that dictionary includes the words "oral sex" | Popehat

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:22:22 +0000

[...] second thought, the ghost to invoke isn’t Orwell’s. It’s that of his countryman C. S. Lewis: The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school [...]