C. S. Lewis Warned Against the New World Order
Written by Gary North on March 2, 2012
In 1946, C. S. Lewis’ novel appeared, That Hideous Strength. It was about the new technocratic elite. His argument was that the elite’s quest for power is at bottom satanic.
I read the book in 1964. I have read it several times since. I have read no other novel more than twice. I read it to remind myself of what we are dealing with.
A recent article on Lewis discusses this book and books by other novelists of his era. One of them, Aldous Huxley, died on the same day Lewis did: November 22, 1963.
The fact that a technocratic system of government is being constructed is becoming clearer by the day. We see daily open proclamations for the earth to be geo-engineered, humanity to be medicated through the water supply, and the very genetic code of the planet re-written.
As Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era, “The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.”
We have watched this ever since the 1930s. It is accelerating.
The author cites George Orwell, Lewis, and Huxley as novelists who explored this process.
C. S. Lewis’ 1945 book That Hideous Strength ties in ideas that he put forth in another of his works titled The Abolition of Man. Hideous Strength is a work of fiction set amidst a supernatural battle between good and evil. . . .
That Hideous Strength revolves around the National Institute for Coordinated Experiments (NICE) and the organization’s plot to seize control of all life.
Lewis writes, “What should they [the elite] regard as too obscene, since they held that all morality was a mere subjective byproduct of the physical and economic situations of men?… From the point of view which is accepted in hell, the whole history of our earth had led up to this moment.”
What exactly is this profound moment Lewis refers to? In short it is a time when mankind transcends biology. It is a revolution against the natural order.
Interestingly, Lewis was one of the earliest writers to denounce transhumanist philosophy. He wrote in Hideous Strength (1945), that the elite of society will merge with technology and eliminate the masses which they call “dead-weight.”
The eugenics movement, beginning around 1900, had this as its goal. Some of America’s richest families supported this movement. The United States was the first nation to impose compulsory sterilization laws for “the less fit.”
That began in Indiana in 1907. Few Americans know that Nazi Germany simply adopted the original Indiana law. The Supreme Court legalized these state laws in the 1927 case, Buck v. Bell.
The Global Future 2045 Congress spoke of “The critical moment… when machines take on an artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds the brainpower of humans. No one in the academic community doubts that this will happen – the question is not if, but when.” Eventually, scientists “…will focus on improving humans…”
The Global Future conference also discussed the rise of “new barbarians” that are “easily deceived.” “Their video-game mentality means they could easily start to wreak havoc…”
As Svetlana Smetanina reported from the conference, “If the proportion of people like this comes to encompass 50 percent of the Earth’s population, then a new “middle ages” are almost guaranteed.”
Are these individuals the “dead-weight” to be rid of?
In That Hideous Strength, Professor Filostrato promoted this view of life.
This, I did not know:
George Orwell, famous for his stunningly accurate portrayal of a future police state in 1984, commented on Lewis’ book Hideous Strength. His commentary was published in the Manchester Evening News in 1945 with the headline “THE SCIENTISTS TAKE OVER.” Orwell wrote,
“All superfluous life is to be wiped out, all natural forces tamed, the common people are to be used as slaves and vivisection subjects by the ruling caste of scientists, who even see their way to conferring immortal life upon themselves. Man, in short, is to storm the heavens and overthrow the gods, or even to become a god himself.
There is nothing outrageously improbable in such a conspiracy. Indeed, at a moment when a single atomic bomb – of a type already pronounced “obsolete” – has just blown probably three hundred thousand people to fragments, it sounds all too topical. Plenty of people in our age do entertain the monstrous dreams of power that Mr. Lewis attributes to his characters, and we are within sight of the time when such dreams will be realisable.”
Lewis did not think the NWO would win this battle. Huxley indicated that it would at the end of Brave New World. I am with Lewis on this.
