The Borowitz Report: "New Claim That Enemies Of U.S. Developed Trump In Lab"
"Tyranny's Best-Kept Secret: It's All About Epistemology"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/tyrannys-best-kept-secret-its-all-about.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/tyrannys-best-kept-secret-its-all-about.html
BTW...
I read the C.S. Lewis passage you posted, and throughout I saw an apt description of you and other totalitarian conspiracists ricocheting around your confirmation bias bubble.
FROM C.S. Lewis, in God in the Dock: Essays on Theology Making of Modern Theology:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
Alan: Here is another apropos quotation from Clive in which he addresses, even more specifically, religious busybodies, whom -- among all busy bodies -- are the most oppressive, in large part due to their absolute certainty that they know best and that God is not only completely on their side, but authorizes, even obliges them, to be repressive, under threat of being roasted for all eternity if they don't. Ouch!
“She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression.” The Screwtape Letters"
