“A Sick Society Must Think Much About Politics”: Election Day Thoughts 0 ▲ Conversable Economist 1 hour ago · Culture · hide The US Democrats and Republicans, together with other political activity around the world, probably takes up too much space in my head. In 1945, C.S. Lewis gave a talk on “Membership,” later published in his collection, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses. Lewis is writing one of his Christian apologetics in this essay. However, when he writes in the second sentence that he is “thinking only of natural values,” that is his way of setting aside his primary topic of Christian faith and discussing secular society for a few lines. Here’s Lewis: To be happy at home, said Johnson, is the end of all human endeavour. As long as we are thinking only of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and that all economies, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a… Comments on Bubbles are switched off. Bubbles is here to help you find posts, and many writers have chosen not to have comments on their blogs. If you want to talk about this post, write to the author or reply on your own blog.
