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Thread: Another shocker by CS Lewis

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    Another shocker by CS Lewis

    Written in 1940 and shockingly applicable to our current world.

    CS Lewis:
    Criminal law increasingly protects the criminal and ceases to protect his victim. One might fear we were moving toward a dictatorship of the criminals or what I fear is the same thing...mere anarchy.

    According to the classical political theory of this country we surrendered our right to self-protection to the state on the condition the state would protect us. The power of the group over the individual is unlimited and the individual sumbits because he has no choice. The state in turn surrenders some small amouny of that power and gives the individual a little freedom.

    At present the very uncomfortable position is this: The state protects us less because it is unwilling to protect us against criminals at home and manifestly grows less and less able to protect us against foreign enemies, at the same time, it demands from us more and more. We seldom had fewer rights and liberties nor more burden and we get less security in return. While our obligations increase the moral ground is taken away.

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    1940 ?
    Looks like nothing has changed except the names of the politicians involved .
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    Human nature does not change. It has been the same as long as man has existed.

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    Do you have the source for this. Was it a particular book. Appreciate knowing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gwpercle View Post
    1940 ?
    Looks like nothing has changed except the names of the politicians involved .
    Gary
    True. The names have changed but the socially corrosive political theology of the left has not.

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    COMMUNISM. No matter what name it takes always creates disaster


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    Its in the series "GOD in the dock". Its a conglamoration of never before published works.

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    Reduce the issue, ignore the drama

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    England in 1940 was a lot like us today urban liberals trying to dictate to the rest of the population, and see where it went. And at this same time they were begging us to send arms to their citizens so they could repel an impending invasion.

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    History all too often repeats itself. All one has to do is read up on the roman empire.
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    England (UK) 1945-1980 was under the controll of the militant trade unions ...the union bosses werent communists by a long shot,more like the feudal barons of the middle ages ....Thatcher smashed the power of the militants,but it had already been eroded severely by the economic disasters caused by union madness.

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