Status Updates From The Screwtape Letters

This is soo good, C.S Lewis has some great quotes

In the age of filters and ai, this is even truer and scarier.

"We are more and more directing the desires of men to something which does not exist-making the role of the eye in sexuality more and more important and at the same time making its demands more and more impossible."

"We have engineered a great increase in the...representation of the...nude in art...It is all a fake, of course; the figures in ...are falsely drawn; the real women in bathing suits or tights are actually pinched in and propped up to make them appear firmer and more slender and more boyish than nature allows a full-grown woman to be...As a result we are directing the desires of men to something which does not exist."

"We now teach men to like women whose bodies are scarcely distinguishable from those of boys. Since this is a kind of beauty even more transitory than most, we thus aggravate the female's chronic horror of growing old (with many excellent results) and render her less willing to and less able to bear children."

"The business of these great [spirits in the Lowerarchy] is to produce in every age a general misdirection of ... sexual 'taste'. They ...work...through the small circle of popular artists, dressmakers, actresses and advertisers who determine the fashionable type. The aim is to guide each sex away from those members of the other with whom spiritually helpful, happy, and fertile marriages are most likely."