thirteen more sunset

i borrow these words from the pages of the abolition of man by cs lewis -

in a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. we make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. we laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. we castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful.

and with all that said it still stands firm half a century later. in fact that few statements has become clearer with passing time. education has lost its intended purpose. rather it has become a tool to train the young with knowledge and information rather than the inoculation of values and beliefs. science has become the magical word to silence values. you see, the case is a rather simple one. to take away these universal desired qualities out of the equation results in a stasis. a state whereby no decisions, judgment or choice can have a say. they just hold no value.

the extremities aside, lets look at something more conceivable. the modern tendency to throw aside traditional values with rationality. and without their chest, men fail to realise that these values have nothing of the negative implications society has placed on traditional or ancient these days. and us the 'trained' ones often take any of these values at whim molding it to our intellectual reason to create a whole new system of our own 'reasoning'. men with no chests.

and i repeat cs lewis's words again -

in a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. we make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. we laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. we castrate and bid the geldings to be fruitful.

we take away the values which defines right and wrong, the human element and expect integrity. rather we become man with no chests, lacking the torso to connect mind and heart. maybe and likely the final chapter of this story would end like the last chapter of the abolition of man, the abolition of man.


- bitter