C.S. Lewis Warned Against the New World Order
by
Gary North
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In 1946,
C. S. Lewis’ novel appeared, That
Hideous Strength. It was about the new technocratic elite.
His argument was that the elite’s quest for power is at bottom
satanic.
I read the
book in 1964. I have read it several times since. I have read
no other novel more than twice. I read it to remind myself of
what we are dealing with.
A recent
article on Lewis discusses this book and books by other novelists
of his era. One of them, Aldous Huxley, died on the same day Lewis
did: November 22, 1963.
The fact that a technocratic system of government is being constructed
is becoming clearer by the day. We see daily open proclamations
for the earth to be geo-engineered, humanity to be medicated through
the water supply, and the very genetic code of the planet re-written.
As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in his 1970 book Between
Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era,
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of
a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by
an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.”
We have watched
this ever since the 1930s. It is accelerating.
The author
cites George Orwell, Lewis, and Huxley as novelists who explored
this process.
C. S. Lewis’
1945 book That Hideous Strength ties in ideas that he
put forth in another of his works titled The
Abolition of Man. Hideous Strength is a work
of fiction set amidst a supernatural battle between good and
evil. . . .
That Hideous
Strength revolves around the National Institute for Coordinated
Experiments (NICE) and the organization’s plot to seize
control of all life.
Lewis
writes, “What should they [the elite] regard as too obscene,
since they held that all morality was a mere subjective byproduct
of the physical and economic situations of men?… From the
point of view which is accepted in hell, the whole history of
our earth had led up to this moment.”
What exactly
is this profound moment Lewis refers to? In short it is a time
when mankind transcends biology. It is a revolution against
the natural order. Interestingly, Lewis was one of the earliest
writers to denounce transhumanist philosophy. He wrote in Hideous
Strength (1945), that the elite of society will merge with
technology and eliminate the masses which they call “dead-weight.”
The eugenics
movement, beginning around 1900, had this as its goal. Some of
America’s richest families supported this movement. The United
States was the first nation to impose compulsory sterilization
laws for “the less fit.” That began in Indiana
in 1907. Few Americans know that Nazi Germany simply adopted
the original Indiana law. The Supreme Court legalized these state
laws in the 1927 case, Buck
v. Bell.
March
3, 2012
Gary
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is the author of Mises
on Money. Visit http://www.garynorth.com.
He is also the author of a free 20-volume series, An
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