Episode 125: "The Abolition of Man" by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 2
The Literary Life Podcast
Angelina Stanford
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šļø 15 March 2022
ā±ļø 87 minutes
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Summary
On The Literary Life podcast this week, Angelina, Cindy and Thomas continue their series of discussions on The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis. They open the conversation with their commonplace quotes and give us a working definition of debunking. You can also read a fantastic post on debunking from Kelly Cumbee's blog here. Other topics of this conversation include "the tao," objective reality, utilitarianism, finding wisdom, and how this book speaks to our current culture.
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Commonplace Quotes:
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
A Scottish proverb, as quoted by Joseph Addison
"Well, at any rate there's no Humbug here. We haven't let anyone take us in. The Dwarfs are for the Dwarfs."
"You see," said Aslan. "They will not let us help them. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their own minds yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."
C. S. Lewis
Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
Proverbs 22:28 (NKJV)
Inexpensive Progress
by John Betjeman
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And all the elmy billows That through your valleys roll. Let's say goodbye to hedges And roads with grassy edges And winding country lanes; Let all things travel faster Where motor car is master Till only Speed remains. Destroy the ancient inn-signs But strew the roads with tin signs 'Keep Left,' 'M4,' 'Keep Out!' Command, instruction, warning, Repetitive adorning The rockeried roundabout; For every raw obscenity Must have its small 'amenity,' Its patch of shaven green, And hoardings look a wonder In banks of floribunda With floodlights in between. Leave no old village standing Which could provide a landing For aeroplanes to roar, But spare such cheap defacements As huts with shattered casements Unlived-in since the war. Let no provincial High Street Which might be your or my street Look as it used to do, But let the chain stores place here Their miles of black glass facia And traffic thunder through. And if there is some scenery, Some unpretentious greenery, Surviving anywhere, It does not need protecting For soon we'll be erecting A Power Station there. When all our roads are lighted By concrete monsters sited Like gallows overhead, Bathed in the yellow vomit Each monster belches from it, We'll know that we are dead.
Book List:
The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
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| 1:09.5 | This is the Literary Life Podcast. Welcome back to the literary life podcast. Today we will be covering section two |
| 1:35.1 | of the abolition of man. |
| 1:37.3 | With me are two people that I hope are, I hope, |
| 1:41.3 | I don't hope, I know are firmly acting within the Dow |
| 1:44.9 | Thomas Banks and Cindy Rollins hello everybody good to be here as always |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah I'm here is is babysitting grandchildren in the Dow so that is well he talks a lot about your feelings toward your your descendants. |
| 2:00.4 | Okay, well they're they're good then I'm good. I have a lot of feeling towards my descendants. |
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