That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis's Prophetic Warning against the Abuse of Science

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[TheDhammaHub]

As a scientist I can only agree with this message... there a good amount of conceit involved at some universities. Many scientists are specialists in one area and automatically assume that they are experts on *everything*, which is obviously wrong.

[NilsFredrikGjerull]

It is not anti-science to question claims made by people working academic institutions. The whole point of science is that the justifications of the claims should stand up to scrutiny. Not only by the scientific community, but by anybody interested.

[slimwhitman]

Some people worship the creation and not the creator.

[NilsFredrikGjerull]

It is horrifying that some scientists think that because thy have excelled is some narrow field they have the right to rule. Such people might be intelligent, but they are not wise. Wisdom is of far greater value when making decisions that affects other people. How naive and dogmatic must those who believe scientism be. Do they even have a clear understanding for what science is, and what it is not? Scientific results tend to be accurate about the banal, but are vague and unreliable about the complex. It can tell you how to effectively reach a goal, but it cannot tell what your goal should be.

[isabelleveilleux]

"I dread government in the name of science. This is how tyrannies come in." That's exactly what's happening now.

[debfryer]

Man’s quest for control is the very opposite of God’s plan for humanity.

[MichaelHarrisIreland]

Great stuff, but needed to go deeper. As a member of the people I want to keep control of my life, I want science to serve me. Not me serve science. It's like when my company said I was a human resource. I had always believed the company was my resource. Their twisted thinking eventually crashed the company. from Ireland.

[maskedbadass]

"Attacking me is attacking science" - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the man who admitted lyimg many times about Coronavirus.

[Nobilangelo]

My favourite scene in That Hideous Strength is the one in which the evil professor is giving a speech, which is applauded at times by the audience, but then his speech slowly disintegrates into arrant nonsense, then mere gibberish--but people kept applauding.

[voiceofREASONS]

I didn't think I could appreciate/respect/look up to CS any more than I already did... Wow

[aaronh]

I read That Hideous Strength in April of 2020 during the covid lockdowns. It is scary how prophetic Lewis was.

[williamstewart]

I find it quite ironic that YouTube's algorithm has figured out that I would like this. Big Science is watching.

[firecloud]

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and gravely to be regarded.
Holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must always be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become a captive of a scientific-technological elite." --President Eisenhower, 17 Jan 1961

[jeffreybones]

Thanks for posting this...very relevant and speaks to what is going on today!

[MissionalMoney]

Just started reading This Hideous Strength and I'm beginning to see the alarming relevance in 2022 JRM January 1, 2022 at 9:05 AM

[shashankpurohit]

" You do not fall in Obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience "
That Hideous Strength

[colleen]

I feel this is where mental illness or distress viewed exclusively through a scientific lens could be really dangerous. Not all but many mental illness’s (especially the high modern prevalence of them) are not a matter of scientific analysis or discussion but of a spiritual/philosophical realm.

[richardjames]

What an amazing man, an Ulster man. He has so much writings that have alot of truth in them. There's definitely much more to him that the lion the witch and the wardrobe!

[pasteghost]

C.S. Lewis is gone but at least we still have his student, Professor John Lennox.😄

[WillFigment]

Science is merely the observation of the sacred.