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“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.”
May 21, 2021 04:52PM
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Wesley Chien is on page 70 of 464
“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
May 16, 2021 12:23PM
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