Ep. 86: God of Science
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The final installment in the Space Trilogy, "That Hideous Strength," is a perfect allegory for our Fauci-worshiping times. In this episode of "Young Heretics," Spencer Klavan describes the logic which Lewis reveals in his myth of megalomania and satanism—a logic which is still at work today.
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| 0:00.0 | The police side of the institute was the really important side. |
| 0:05.0 | It existed to relieve the ordinary executive of what might be called all sanitary cases, |
| 0:12.0 | a category which ranged from vaccination to charges of unnatural vice, |
| 0:16.0 | from which it was only a step to bringing in all cases of blackmail. |
| 0:21.0 | As regards crime in general, they had already populated in the press the idea that the institute |
| 0:26.0 | should be allowed to experiment pretty largely in the hope of discovering how far |
| 0:31.0 | humane remedial treatment could be substituted for the old notion of |
| 0:36.0 | retributive or vindictive punishment. |
| 0:39.0 | There was a lot of legal red tape that stood in their way, |
| 0:43.0 | but there are only two papers we don't control, |
| 0:46.0 | said the fairy, and we'll smash them. |
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