The modern state exists not to protect our rights, but to do us good or make us good.

Anyway, to do something to us or to make us something.

Hence the new name leaders for those who were once rulers.

We are less their subjects than their wards,

pupils, or domestic animals.

There is nothing left of which we can say to them,

Find your own business.

Our whole lives are their business.

This is Pints with Jack, season 9, episode 18, The Abolition of Man, Chapter 3,

The Abolition of Man.

Part 1, Man's Conquest of Nature.

Have you been looking, everywhere searching for a place where you belong?

Away from the masses among clinking glasses where the hearth fire is on.

Let the laughter welcome you in that eagle and child din.

There's room at this table.

So take a seat and tuck right in for Pints with Jack

Pints with Jack

Well welcome friends to Pints with Jack

Well welcome friends to Pints with Jack you observant listeners will notice that I am not Matthew Bush. We think that he is at the point of having young little Michael Andrew. And so David and I are carrying on in his absence today. For the past couple of months, we've been working our way through the abolition of man this year,

and today we begin the final chapter.

This chapter shares its name with the book, The Abolition of Man, so whatever Lewis is going to tell us,

it's going to be important, and it's probably not going to be good.

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