It's just an excerpt, but in the rest of the paragraph Lewis does provide more detail:
Thus we make it fashionable to expose the dangers of enthusiasm at the very moment when they are all really becoming worldly and lukewarm; a century later, when we are really making them all Byronic and drunk with emotion, the fashionable outcry is directed against the dangers of the mere 'understanding.' Cruel ages are put on their guard against Sentimentality, feckless and idle ones against Respectability, lecherous ones against Puritanism; and whenever all men are really hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey."
I just wish he had written it in English. Or if he didn't want to write in English, had opted for Hebrew. Whatever languages this is, is just too hard to read.
and whenever all men are really hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey
Although I don't sprechen-zee whatever language he is sprechening here, doesn't this say he is in favor of liberalism?
He is using the term in the original Jeffersonian sense, not as the modern American euphemism for socialism. That line presciently describes our current predicament, where we have a government trending towards totalitarianism but the Left is demanding further crackdowns on pro-freedom groups.
The fashionable outcry is white supremacy/ systemic opression. The virtue is tolerance. Tolerating everything leads to lawlessness, which they seek to make endemic.
Remember, The Screwtape Letters was written from the point of view of a demon who is training his demon nephew how to trip up his assigned human.
Clear wisdom in that exercept. Screwtape is a great read👍
He should have mentioned some example. Such an abstract statement is meaningless.
It's just an excerpt, but in the rest of the paragraph Lewis does provide more detail:
I just wish he had written it in English. Or if he didn't want to write in English, had opted for Hebrew. Whatever languages this is, is just too hard to read.
Although I don't sprechen-zee whatever language he is sprechening here, doesn't this say he is in favor of liberalism?
He is using the term in the original Jeffersonian sense, not as the modern American euphemism for socialism. That line presciently describes our current predicament, where we have a government trending towards totalitarianism but the Left is demanding further crackdowns on pro-freedom groups.
Even in the archaic sense, liberalism means giving lots of money away, doesn't it?
Politically, it would be closer to what would now be considered libertarianism.
There is the expression "giving money away liberally," but even there "liberally" is just a synonym for "freely."
Shill stein?
Play on Jill Stein. You like?
Don't like Shill.
The fashionable outcry is white supremacy/ systemic opression. The virtue is tolerance. Tolerating everything leads to lawlessness, which they seek to make endemic.
Yes, that is a perfect example.
Just drive the boat past a nude beach. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4890829