Talk:The Abolition of Man
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Interesting article, but it doesn't explain the book's title. (Why "The Abolition of Man"?)
- Does the latest addition help? --Lavintzin 14:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Outline
Does a detailed outline like that CleverOaf inserted belong in this article? My own reaction is that probably not. It could be posted elsewhere and linked to. What do the rest of you think?
If it is to remain, there are a number of changes I would propose.
A less detailed outline might be helpful, though to some extent it would recapitulating information already in the article.
--Lavintzin 17:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
The Intercollegiate Review ranked this work at #2 of the Best Books of the 20th Century [1]--Billymac00 20:32, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] It's political correctness gone crazy, I tell you.
The section headed "Lewis' relevance to the present" seems very politically biassed: it is pretty hard to see a connection between "political correctness" (whatever that means) and Lewis's "conditioners." There is indeed a UK government body called the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (it's job it to licence new pharmeceuticals) but what this has to do with the fictitious organisation of devil-worshipping scienntists in "That Hideious Strength" I can't quite see.
Andrew Rilstone
[edit] Lewis's relevance to the present?
I've removed this section from the main article, since I doesn't appear to have a NPOV. DLWormwood 20:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
a distant future in which the values and morals of the majority are controlled by a small group who rule by a perfect understanding of psychology, and who in turn, being able to "see through" any system of morality that might induce them to act in a certain way, are ruled only by their own unreflected whims. The controllers will no longer be recognizably human, the controlled will be robot-like, and the Abolition of Man will have been completed Perhaps not such a distant future? In many ways Lewis's 'dystopia' appears to relate to developments in contemporary western societies - in particular the replacement of all traditional values in every possible area by new, invented 'values' which are essentially decreed by the ruling political, cultural and intellectual minority, and the control of public perceptions through the media. Certainly phenomena such as so-called 'political correctness' would seem to fit Lewis's nightmare vision perfectly. In 'That Hideous Strength' there is a government organisation in Britain involved in enforcing these new 'values' called N.I.C.E. No doubt this was a Lewisian joke - a euphemistic acronym concealing something very nasty indeed, but unthinkable in reality. Except that there actually *is* now an organisation called exactly that!
