Status Updates From The Art of Being Ruled

“The more classes (of which, in their various functions, he is representative) that you can make him become regularly conscious of, the more you can control him, the more of an automaton he becomes...the more inflexible each of these links is, the more powerful, naturally, is the chain.”

“All the liberal tricks are seen through and known now by heart. So, for better or for worse, parliamentary rule is finished.”

There’s plenty of “unsavory” content in Lewis’s nonfiction from this era, but, IMO, he had one of the sharpest minds of the era and it’s worth working through his critique of liberal democracy

So far Lewis has taken gutteral thrusts at the "common man" while emphasising the importance of a ruler along with the desire to be ruled by the former. He has bruised up well that democratic whore and her fancy towards the liberty of having all but using none. (Such as with free movement of peoples) Freedom demands suffering and overcoming, the American version is but a shortcut substituted by outward dependence.