It should have become apparent that the Aardvark has a
penchant for the conspiratorial. What the mainstream would view as confabulist is, to his mind, most plausible, even more reasonable than the things most hold as self-evident.That the most powerful arguments the mainstreamers can offer up consist of name-calling does little to dissuade him.
I have spent the week-end in Huntington, WV, plying my shirty trade at TsubasaCon, blissfully cut off from News, Facebook, and rabbitings about Obamacare. to pass the time I run up the spindizzy on my Kindle and read; the current book of choice is
That Hideous Strength, the
Late Great Planet Earth of his Space Trilogy. Even that waggish comparison is unfair;
THS is no more end-timey-wimey than is the Book of Revelation. It is more
all-timey-wimey, a picture of the forces that are ever-present in the world, ever vying for power, ever jockeying for position; it is the always-new contest for the Domination of the World: Caesar v. Christ. The shiny chrome and tile world of the
National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (NICE) and its goals read like UN agency memoranda, or talking points for Planned Parenthood, though risking to use those as examples might occlude the breathtaking scope and prescience of Lewis' literary Progressives. Written in 1945, THS takes my breath away in revealing the thought behind what is de rigueur for those who are in, who are shaping the world and our opinions in the name of The News.
“Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right,
both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get
things done.”
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“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our
difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who
believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda
and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football
results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and
corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to
recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the
high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right
already. They'll believe anything.”
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“We want you to write it down--to camouflage it. Only for the present,
of course. Once the thing gets going we shan't have to bother about the
great heart of the British public. We'll make the great heart what we
want it to be. But in the meantime, it does make a difference how
things are put. For instance, if it were even whispered that the
N.I.C.E. wanted powers to experiment on criminals, you'd have all the
old women of both sexes up in arms and yapping about humanity. Call it
re-education of the mal-adjusted, and you have them all slobbering with
delight that the brutal era of retributive punishment has at last come
to and end. Odd thing it is--the word 'experiment' is unpopular, but
not the word 'experimental.' You mustn't experiment on children; but
offer the dear little kiddies free education in an experimental school
attached to the N.I.C.E. and it's all correct!”
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The
N.I.C.E. was the first-fruits of that constructive fusion between the
state and the laboratory on which so many thoughtful people base their
hopes of a better world. It was to be free from almost all the tiresome
restraints – “red tape” was the word its supporters used – which have
hitherto hampered research in this country. It was also largely free
from the restraints of economy, for, as it was argued, the nation which
can spend so many millions a day on a war can surely afford a few
millions a month on productive research in peacetime. - See more at:
http://www.wanliss.com/2011/11/quotes-that-hideous-strength-by-c-s-lewis/#sthash.0pF0HOar.dpuf
The
N.I.C.E. was the first-fruits of that constructive fusion between the
state and the laboratory on which so many thoughtful people base their
hopes of a better world. It was to be free from almost all the tiresome
restraints – “red tape” was the word its supporters used – which have
hitherto hampered research in this country. It was also largely free
from the restraints of economy, for, as it was argued, the nation which
can spend so many millions a day on a war can surely afford a few
millions a month on productive research in peacetime. - See more at:
http://www.wanliss.com/2011/11/quotes-that-hideous-strength-by-c-s-lewis/#sthash.0pF0HOar.dpuf
"The N.I.C.E. was the first-fruits of that constructive fusion between the state and the laboratory on which so many thoughtful people base their hopes of a better world. It was to be free from almost all the tiresome restraints – “red tape” was the word its supporters used – which have hitherto hampered research in this country. It was also largely free from the restraints of economy, for, as it was argued, the nation which can spend so many millions a day on a war can surely afford a few millions a month on productive research in peacetime. "
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"Perhaps few or none of the people at Belbury knew what was happening; but once it happened, they would be like straw in fire. What should they find incredible, since they believe no longer in a rational universe? What should they regard as to obscene, since they held that all morality was a mere subjective by-product of the physical and economic situations of men? The time was ripe. From the point of view which is accepted in Hell, the whole history of our Earth had led up to this moment."
Lewis during The War saw clearly the direction Things were leading, and produced a work of scientifiction that reads like a modern novel, Art Bell, Alex Jones, and Agenda 21 all rolled up into one, and more. I encourage a reading of his entire trilogy, but That Hideous Strength, if you pay attention to current happenings, will set the heart crosswise in ye.
The
N.I.C.E. was the first-fruits of that constructive fusion between the
state and the laboratory on which so many thoughtful people base their
hopes of a better world. It was to be free from almost all the tiresome
restraints – “red tape” was the word its supporters used – which have
hitherto hampered research in this country. It was also largely free
from the restraints of economy, for, as it was argued, the nation which
can spend so many millions a day on a war can surely afford a few
millions a month on productive research in peacetime. - See more at:
http://www.wanliss.com/2011/11/quotes-that-hideous-strength-by-c-s-lewis/#sthash.0pF0HOar.dpuf
The
N.I.C.E. was the first-fruits of that constructive fusion between the
state and the laboratory on which so many thoughtful people base their
hopes of a better world. It was to be free from almost all the tiresome
restraints – “red tape” was the word its supporters used – which have
hitherto hampered research in this country. It was also largely free
from the restraints of economy, for, as it was argued, the nation which
can spend so many millions a day on a war can surely afford a few
millions a month on productive research in peacetime. - See more at:
http://www.wanliss.com/2011/11/quotes-that-hideous-strength-by-c-s-lewis/#sthash.0pF0HOar.dpuf
