Come along as I read through The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. If you have a request for something you would like me to read, send me an email at SmithingEnterprises@gmail.com
Hey, I went to the very end! My thoughts - I tried to read this decades ago when I was a callow youth, and it bored me rigid and mostly went over my head. I also thought the subject irrelevant to me. Mere Christianity was more urgent to me and more accessible. That was then. Now, decades later, a marriage and kid and advanced degree later, I am amazed at how prescient CS Lewis was about the void, and the non-men. Here were are, hiding at home under self inflicted house arrest at the diktat of chestless men while our livelihoods, incomes and prospects wither away. A powerful book, with a distressingly clear view of where we are being herded.
Thank you for your comment. As l listened l thought this is too close for comfort . I read it a couple of years ago. At that time l thought it was a view that heighten esthetics could be destroyed. That shallow base existence could ensure. But l have too much faith and hope in God. We have experienced challenging times recently. But the Creator in above the creatures.
I've read this before and thought it was very profound. I just finished reading Speechless by Michael Knowles and now I see this book in a new light. The point Lewis makes about the way words are manipulated to basically brainwash people, and how taking away the traditions and morals while trying to force people to conform to abstract values unattached to any historical or moral source, is so relevant to today. We are literally being stripped of our ability to reason or verbalize anything beyond grievance afainst others and subservience to the ruling elite. 'Men without chests' is such an apt phrase. And we see it so clearly: people who have no virtues or clarity of moral thought who define themselves purely by their own depraved sexual desires; people who despise historical figures (who possessed admirable virtues) because they did not conform to 'the new moral order' while setting up monuments to modern 'victims' who possess no virtues; people who have lost the power of seeing anything in light of good versus evil, but only in light of oppresser and oppressed. Truth is subjective. Self-control is mocked. People are now daring to call the God of the Bible genocidal, a rapist, a child abuser, and racist. I really appreciate Lewis' moral clarity, and the foresight he had to see all the problems with 'the green book', which a lot of people would have simply missed.
So cool - thanks for the read. Lewis predicts the rise of Post Modernity of which today we are seeing the catastrophic but inevitable consequences. This is one of my favorite Lewis books. Please read The Great Divorce
I listen to this everynight as i go to sleep. it took me weeks to finish it. and now i will listen to it again until i absorb the message and remember it. your voice is so therapeutic. really appreciate it. i hope to hear more cs lewis works...
Thank you so much - I enjoyed your reading! I love C. S. Lewis and consider this one of the most important works of the 20th Century. And yes, I listened to all of it. I have little time to sit down and read, so am very grateful that I can listen to great works as I do chores. As to your question: It was during the last quarter of the 19th Century, with the rise of Pragmatism, that Americans abandoned the concept of fixed Principles and Transcendent Truth and embraced relativism, and the Darwinian concept that law, morals, etc., etc., etc., "evolve". Then, with the rise of Existentialism during the first half of the 20th Century, man was seen as nothing more than a biological organism making "choices" on no basis whatsoever other than his passing whims. During the 1960's, a wholesale collapse of all standards whatsoever took place. It was a dizzying time. And the American People disregarded the warnings of the wise. I have read "Til we have faces" several times in the past, but still don't understand it. I wasn't raised in the Christian tradition and so have gaps in my knowledge. Perhaps if I heard it read.....???? Let me know.
I was with you to the end. I was headed to the library to check out this book when I found you reading it on-line. I appreciate the time and effort you went to in order to read this profound book of C. S. Lewis, my first of his. I enjoyed your voice and pronunciations.
I’ve read it myself, and had a hard time understanding it. I knew he was saying something important, but I couldn’t tell what. Thank you for your reading, it was helpful in this matter.
I find it fascinating, and it came to mind immediately, to compare the non-men in this work to the benevolent rulers of Brave New World, where even in a supposed utopia liberated from all things thought to be "Tao" in the best possible sense conceptually, can still be reduced to an utterly inhuman and horrifying scenario.
Listened to the end at work! Thank you so much! Says so much about education and development, technology... and Christianity. I went to a conference where the idea of "men without chests" was a main point of conversation about human flourishing. If only I could get more people to read this and actually understand! 😉
I thank you for sharing this great work with all of us. I’m sure our Good Lord is well pleased that you’re using your gifts in this way. Thanks again for being a tremendous blessing. LP
A magnificient book written many decades ago by a man form Belfast Northern Ireland and a countryman of mine. His foresight and precision is breathtaking. I to read it sometime ago and it has dewelt in my thoughts ever since , God bless you for presenting it again.
I listened to the end of this and was so pleasantly surprised that you mentioned Clark and Van Til. Clark was the most influential thinker in my formative teenage years when I was first beginning to interact with other worldviews than my own, and his teachings moreso than anyone else's were a safety net from falling into the moral relativism that so many people are indoctrinated with today. Thanks for reading the book and making this video! Next you should read some Gordon Clark!!! lol 😆
Made it to the end! Watched/listened to this on light duty at work while filing endless EMS billing papers. I listened to a reading of Mere Christianity before this and so this was a nice segway.
I admit that this reading went over my head several times yet I clearly understood Lewis’s point of the danger of relativism by the end of the reading. I really enjoyed your reading of it. I would suggest that you please give a introduction to the book and background of the book for those of us who are new to this sort of literature. Or perhaps provide some supportive videos for those like me who need a little more help in understanding. I looked to see if you posted any more videos and it looks like this is the only one so far. I sure hope you continue. You are an excellent reader and easy to listen to. I also appreciate that you paused to clarify context a few times.
I came across your video in the search on an audiobook. I loved the pace and tone in which you read. I was quite surprised going into your channel and finding that this is your one and only video….please do more!!!
Thank you for the reading, you kept my husband and I entertained while on our long drove back home. We must be intentional about teaching and upholding virtues and morals to our young if we desire to have a sublime society in the future. mmanuel Kant defines virtue as a kind of strength and resoluteness of will to resist and overcome any obstacles that oppose fulfilling our moral duties. That’s the chest that CS Lewis speaks of..
I wasn't sure I could I follow at first. I really wanted to. I'm glad you found your voice control swiftly. As a writer I listen to audio books so I can read and write at the same time. I am picky with the voices for various reasons. It has to click. As a vocalist I appreciate your craft. Voice control is difficult and varying it to read aloud even more so. Thank you for this pleasant listen. I look to forward to more of your work and may have some requests in the future.
The late Fr Thomas Hopko, who was Dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox seminary, did a wonderful talk on this book. He's a witty and engaging speaker. It's on the Utube, several copies. Full length or chopped up.
It’s nice that CS Lewis has the humility to mention that the authors’ he’s criticizing are working hard and doing their best. Pride can be a real problem with ppl who know scripture well and remain apart from the world. Never lose that love
I believe I'm net yet mature enough for this just yet. But when he talked about thinking men being closer to the spirit vs non thinking visceral, I felt that
I read the book before and enjoy listening to you reading it also . I Particularly liked your thoughts on the author and his style of conveying his message . Good Job .
Bought this book in November because I had heard how good it was. Although I have an MD, I could not really grasp the first chapter and kept putting the book down. Hearing it read aloud with inflections and a few clarifications really helps.
I am enjoying this reading and am blown away how the content touches on the precepts of social constructionism and the reductionist mindset. I have just ordered all CW Lewis books top titles. :)
One that I feel is imperative in our times is, Stalin's secret agents by M Stanton Evans. It blew my mind. "The third stage of ideological subversion is the crisis phase. By this point, the society is in a state of chaos and a breakdown of trust in institutions. This crisis manifests in political upheaval, economic collapse, or social unrest. The goal is to push the society to a breaking point where people are desperate for solutions, paving the way for radical change." - Yuri Bezmenov
I've heard that this is the philosophical substructure of That Hideous Strength, which I've read many times. Listening to you read The Abolition of Man, I can definitely see it, especially in its criticism of the ultimate nihilism of materialism.
How fascinating....my favorite book by my favorite author. When I was in middle school, I assigned myself the voluntary project of recording at least some of the Narnia books for my local elementary school's library, merely because I loved the books and the writing so much. Now here is this young man reading a C.S. Lewis book of commentary and apology....and nothing else on youtube. And this young man, somehow, has my grandfather's face, as it happens, which makes me wonder...is there a gene for one's favorite author? I'm being facetious, of course there isn't! But this recording makes me wonder what it would have been like, had my grandfather lived longer or had he had time, when he was alive, to read aloud to his grandchildren..... (It's not really at at all surprising to see someone with my grandfather's face reading a book on youtube....he had the highest IQ on record for his generation, when he took the Stanford Binet IQ test in 1919 upon graduation from college. And so, like the other college educated caucasian males of his day in America, he was tapped to give sperm for the Human Eugenic Breeding Program. Thus, I have uncles and aunts and cousins all around the world because of that program, which my grandfather didn't think much of, making fun of it as a young man, and then allying himself with Roosevelt, against the Nazi's, who took the Eugenics program to its logical conclusion.... I did not learn about this until I was an adult, working with developmentally delayed children in my work. I thought it was important to educate myself about the hhistory of how the developmentally delayed have been treated in this country in the past....which turns out to be a rather hair raising topic when one delves into it. And then I realized that my grandfather had actually been a sperm donor in his youth...but at least he made fun of it, apparently quipping, "What's UP, Doc?" when he would bring his sperm sample into the lab, or wherever it was that they collected them.... That quip, the fact that he enjoyed eating carrots, and his many, many sperm donor children, meant that someone created the character of Bugs Bunny to spoof him. But his kids and grandkids are BRIGHT, and usually kind, as he was. He could have been a total jerk as an adult, with all the fuss made over his IQ and his looks. and instead he made fun of it all and stayed humble and humorous. He especially liked children, but I don't think his work, at the U.S. State Department as a diplomat, allowed him very much time to spend with his own children when he was young. When my Dad had reached the age of twelve, my grandfather made sure to set aside forty five minutes a day, the time from when he got home after work until dinner was on the table, to spend exclusively with my dad, reading the newspaper together and discussing the news and the headlines, together in the living room, while dinner was being prepared. And he took me sightseeing when I visited with him for two weeks...but he didn't know much what to say to a ten year old little girl, though he could see that I was reading books well above grade level, which pleased him very much indeed. He took my snapshot standing in front of all the monuments, and diving off the diving board at the local swimming pool near where he lived in Washington DC. In his career, he helped form the underpinnings of the Democratic Party, behind the scenes, and some of the most deeply rooted ideals of the party come from my grandfather's writings... for what that's worth. Just so you know whose face you carry..... of course, it's not your genetics, but your CHOICES, ....(your Choices, Harry Potter!)... that reveal the content of your character and upbringing! The genes merely give you your talents. Your character and upbringing help you to decide what to do with those talents.
Of course, a mask can mimic almost any facial structure, whereas teeth, fingers, and one's general build are more difficult to fake. This reader's fingers, teeth, and build say "Joe Kennedy" and "Averell Harrimann", "Johnnie Cashmere", and even "Liu Yifei". Sigh. So what was the point of this exercise? To entice me to read this book? I've already read this book, long ago. The concept of "Men without Chests", is what you get when babies are exposed in utero to certain neuromodulation drugs. And the concept of the head, the chest, and the appetites as defining three different motivation sources that C.S.Lewis describes, goes well with our neuro-anatomical understanding of the sources of human brain structures, some of which, the neocortex, are analogous to Lewis' concept of the 'Head', some, like the "dinosaur brain" are analogous to the gut-based appetites. The "chest", apparently, is analogous to those mammalian brain structures, that really likely do give us loyalty and affection (like the structures that might prompt a mommie badger to nurture her young and defend them against natural predators), and that really are blocked by dopamine-blocking drugs. Neuromodulation drugs can create a "dinosaur brain" or a "man without a chest" in someone who otherwise would act normally, humanely, with loyalty and affection. Neuromodulation drugs do that by blocking the brain chemical, namely Dopamine, that modulates love and loyalty and affection. When you block Dopamine in an otherwise normal person, you are not "preventing crime" or "managing anger". Rather you are blocking that person's ability to express those functions, namely love, reason, and creativity, that are "that of God" in the human brain. In other words, the modern tendency to neuromodulate the population with dopamine blocking chemicals is creating a race of reptile like subhuman look-alikes, reptilian in their characters, unable fully to love, reason, and create, but otherwise looking just like the rest of us. In other words, one could say that the age of the "zombie vampires" really is upon us, created not by the vampires themselves, but by our oligarchs' decision to neuromodulate every man, woman, and child with drugs that create brain damaged zombies out of our children and adults by blocking Dopamine, due to dopamine-blocking, teratogenic, neuro modulation drugs sprayed by these oligarchs and their neuro-modudlation companies in every home, car, store, office, school, and church.
p.s. That curl over the right temple is a genuine genetic trait that comes in on both sides of my family...which means that it likely comes from the nearest common ancestor to both my mum and my dad, since my mum had that curl-cowlick and so did my dad's mum, showing in many photographs of each of those two women in her youth. So the curl/cowlick trait must have come from Mary James.....though I haven't seen it manifest in any of her photographs, I haven't really gone looking for it. So, yes, my grandfather might have had it also--because I have Mary James three different times in my ancestral tree, though I don't recall seeing that particular curl in any of his photographs. Nice work, Chipperoo. My grandfather, of course, is the guy who told "Ricky's" mom, (in the voice of King Friday the Thirteenth from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, in the perfect blend of stuffy and sweet): "By all means, don't abort your baby. Heavens, we can handle babies. We have always handled babies! In fact, uh...uhm....ahem....we rather... like ... babies. At least, we're quite fond of them, quite fond of them, indeed. We'll make a home for him with a lovely middle aged couple of foster parents, right next door to my son's home in Queens! That home will be safe and out of the way, where no one would expect to find him, but also convenient for his parents to visit him if they so choose....yes, yes, by all means." Pity we didn't recognize one another in college. It would have prevented a world of problems.
Hey there, I greatly appreciate what you do, I personally love not just reading but listening to good books being read. As a proposal, could you do "Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Faith" By William Lane Craig?
This book is a hard read, well done, sir. I have just finished reading, God In The Dock. which I came across in a charity shop. It's' hard to belive the same author wrote both books.
I just checked, and this came out 10 years after brave new world. I'm rather surprised. I guess the idea had to be written in fiction before it could be made concrete.
Well conversing with a friend the other day they explained about the three trees, duality and spirit, using the paleo Hebrew logos, to reveal more light on the subject at hand, to glean any insight i find accuracy of understanding is fundamental to reason, so firstly we need accuracy as to the allegories and metaphors and their true intent, secondly we need to not marr this information with ones ego, bias and beliefs as a start, otherwise any gleamed meaning is polluted by the self. Once one wrestles their self into balance then one can start authentically trying to understand the whole, the paleo Hebrew gives us more accuracy then the freemasonic King James' Bible/book, so with the more accurate information you can now have a more accurate understanding of the esoteric/occult concepts within the Sun Book/holy bible.
Now we have these concepts understood more accurately you can see all people who undertake selfwork an gather accurate information end up in a similar place of understanding, once the concepts have been absorbed accurately you see them in most of the ancient worlds documents, the labels are different the concepts aren't. The Adamu/Ad/man and Lileth Eve/Lelu are aeons apart but expressing similar if not identical concepts. The pantheon, we called "gods", so the concept i have is that the gods were possibly upset at their creation, here to serve an slave for them archons possibly, gained sentients, technology, and rebelled against these "wise ones" .
Hey, I went to the very end! My thoughts - I tried to read this decades ago when I was a callow youth, and it bored me rigid and mostly went over my head. I also thought the subject irrelevant to me. Mere Christianity was more urgent to me and more accessible. That was then. Now, decades later, a marriage and kid and advanced degree later, I am amazed at how prescient CS Lewis was about the void, and the non-men. Here were are, hiding at home under self inflicted house arrest at the diktat of chestless men while our livelihoods, incomes and prospects wither away. A powerful book, with a distressingly clear view of where we are being herded.
Thank you for your comment. As l listened l thought this is too close for comfort .
I read it a couple of years ago. At that time l thought it was a view that heighten esthetics could be destroyed. That shallow base existence could ensure.
But l have too much faith and hope in God.
We have experienced challenging times recently. But the Creator in above the creatures.
I've read this before and thought it was very profound. I just finished reading Speechless by Michael Knowles and now I see this book in a new light. The point Lewis makes about the way words are manipulated to basically brainwash people, and how taking away the traditions and morals while trying to force people to conform to abstract values unattached to any historical or moral source, is so relevant to today. We are literally being stripped of our ability to reason or verbalize anything beyond grievance afainst others and subservience to the ruling elite.
'Men without chests' is such an apt phrase. And we see it so clearly: people who have no virtues or clarity of moral thought who define themselves purely by their own depraved sexual desires; people who despise historical figures (who possessed admirable virtues) because they did not conform to 'the new moral order' while setting up monuments to modern 'victims' who possess no virtues; people who have lost the power of seeing anything in light of good versus evil, but only in light of oppresser and oppressed.
Truth is subjective. Self-control is mocked. People are now daring to call the God of the Bible genocidal, a rapist, a child abuser, and racist.
I really appreciate Lewis' moral clarity, and the foresight he had to see all the problems with 'the green book', which a lot of people would have simply missed.
Well said Laura. You really capture how things are at present. There is a lot more at stake than we are given to believe. God bless.
So cool - thanks for the read. Lewis predicts the rise of Post Modernity of which today we are seeing the catastrophic but inevitable consequences. This is one of my favorite Lewis books. Please read The Great Divorce
Listened to the end. Good job, looking forward to hear more of C.S. Lewis or anyone that relates on the same topics. Thanks...
FYI The Great Divorce is already on YT and read by a phenomenal narrator.
Yes! 'The Great Divorce' is a short but amazing book.
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I listen to this everynight as i go to sleep. it took me weeks to finish it. and now i will listen to it again until i absorb the message and remember it. your voice is so therapeutic. really appreciate it. i hope to hear more cs lewis works...
Excellent reading! Perfect tone, pace and voice. Would be great to hear you read Mere Christianity. God bless!
I have never understood this book until your reading of it. Thank you.
Thank you so much - I enjoyed your reading! I love C. S. Lewis and consider this one of the most important works of the 20th Century. And yes, I listened to all of it. I have little time to sit down and read, so am very grateful that I can listen to great works as I do chores.
As to your question: It was during the last quarter of the 19th Century, with the rise of Pragmatism, that Americans abandoned the concept of fixed Principles and Transcendent Truth and embraced relativism, and the Darwinian concept that law, morals, etc., etc., etc., "evolve". Then, with the rise of Existentialism during the first half of the 20th Century, man was seen as nothing more than a biological organism making "choices" on no basis whatsoever other than his passing whims. During the 1960's, a wholesale collapse of all standards whatsoever took place. It was a dizzying time. And the American People disregarded the warnings of the wise.
I have read "Til we have faces" several times in the past, but still don't understand it. I wasn't raised in the Christian tradition and so have gaps in my knowledge. Perhaps if I heard it read.....???? Let me know.
I was with you to the end. I was headed to the library to check out this book when I found you reading it on-line. I appreciate the time and effort you went to in order to read this profound book of C. S. Lewis, my first of his. I enjoyed your voice and pronunciations.
I’ve read it myself, and had a hard time understanding it. I knew he was saying something important, but I couldn’t tell what. Thank you for your reading, it was helpful in this matter.
Made it all the way through on a Saturday afternoon doing chores. Thank you! Appreciated the additional commentary.
I find it fascinating, and it came to mind immediately, to compare the non-men in this work to the benevolent rulers of Brave New World, where even in a supposed utopia liberated from all things thought to be "Tao" in the best possible sense conceptually, can still be reduced to an utterly inhuman and horrifying scenario.
Dude, make more of these. I love this!
Listened to the end at work! Thank you so much! Says so much about education and development, technology... and Christianity. I went to a conference where the idea of "men without chests" was a main point of conversation about human flourishing. If only I could get more people to read this and actually understand! 😉
I thank you for sharing this great work with all of us. I’m sure our Good Lord is well pleased that you’re using your gifts in this way. Thanks again for being a tremendous blessing. LP
A magnificient book written many decades ago by a man form Belfast Northern Ireland and a countryman of mine. His foresight and precision is breathtaking. I to read it sometime ago and it has dewelt in my thoughts ever since , God bless you for presenting it again.
I listened to the end of this and was so pleasantly surprised that you mentioned Clark and Van Til. Clark was the most influential thinker in my formative teenage years when I was first beginning to interact with other worldviews than my own, and his teachings moreso than anyone else's were a safety net from falling into the moral relativism that so many people are indoctrinated with today. Thanks for reading the book and making this video! Next you should read some Gordon Clark!!! lol 😆
You have a great reading voice, looking forward to hearing more from you.
Made it to the end! Watched/listened to this on light duty at work while filing endless EMS billing papers. I listened to a reading of Mere Christianity before this and so this was a nice segway.
ty for your effort and diligence in providing this audiobook. you rock the house!
I love the quote at 16:15. Thank you for posting this and saving me lots of time and money.
I admit that this reading went over my head several times yet I clearly understood Lewis’s point of the danger of relativism by the end of the reading. I really enjoyed your reading of it. I would suggest that you please give a introduction to the book and background of the book for those of us who are new to this sort of literature. Or perhaps provide some supportive videos for those like me who need a little more help in understanding. I looked to see if you posted any more videos and it looks like this is the only one so far. I sure hope you continue. You are an excellent reader and easy to listen to. I also appreciate that you paused to clarify context a few times.
Were there any specific topical areas you had a difficult time wrapping your mind around?
I listened through to the end. Great book, and you did a good job translating the written word into spoken word. I appreciate it, thanks
I came across your video in the search on an audiobook. I loved the pace and tone in which you read. I was quite surprised going into your channel and finding that this is your one and only video….please do more!!!
Thank you for the reading, you kept my husband and I entertained while on our long drove back home.
We must be intentional about teaching and upholding virtues and morals to our young if we desire to have a sublime society in the future.
mmanuel Kant defines virtue as a kind of strength and resoluteness of will to resist and overcome any obstacles that oppose fulfilling our moral duties. That’s the chest that CS Lewis speaks of..
I listened to the entire thing. Thank you very much for your reading I appreciate very much.
Thank you, appreciated you posting this.
I enjoyed your reading of Lewis. His works should be readily available in audio format and I thank you for this video.
I listened to the end. Great book and good narration. Worthy of many reexaminations
I wasn't sure I could I follow at first. I really wanted to. I'm glad you found your voice control swiftly. As a writer I listen to audio books so I can read and write at the same time. I am picky with the voices for various reasons. It has to click. As a vocalist I appreciate your craft. Voice control is difficult and varying it to read aloud even more so. Thank you for this pleasant listen. I look to forward to more of your work and may have some requests in the future.
I also listen to it to the very end. Thank you for reading it to me. Now I may have to read the book too LOL
Made it to the end! Great job!
Love this reading, thanks, really wonderful ❤️
The late Fr Thomas Hopko, who was Dean of St Vladimir's Orthodox seminary, did a wonderful talk on this book. He's a witty and engaging speaker.
It's on the Utube, several copies. Full length or chopped up.
This book is really interesting in the context of All Tomorrows. Definitely some interesting parallels.
Thanks brother! Divine providence be with you.
It’s nice that CS Lewis has the humility to mention that the authors’ he’s criticizing are working hard and doing their best. Pride can be a real problem with ppl who know scripture well and remain apart from the world. Never lose that love
I believe I'm net yet mature enough for this just yet. But when he talked about thinking men being closer to the spirit vs non thinking visceral, I felt that
The combination audiobook and commentary is a really good idea, if you were to do more of these, I’d definitely listen :D
Thank you! I listened to the end😁! I realize the reading & my listening are separated by years, though. 😬
I read the book before and enjoy listening to you reading it also . I Particularly liked your thoughts on the author and his style of conveying his message . Good Job .
Great work, thank you 🙏 📚
Bought this book in November because I had heard how good it was. Although I have an MD, I could not really grasp the first chapter and kept putting the book down. Hearing it read aloud with inflections and a few clarifications really helps.
Read by someone who used his talent to help this deep book be understood more easily. Well done! Thanks!!
Enjoyed your comments and concluding notes! Well read.
I am enjoying this reading and am blown away how the content touches on the precepts of social constructionism and the reductionist mindset. I have just ordered all CW Lewis books top titles. :)
Beautiful voice, thank you for reading this book, I wish you can read other books of This author.
Listened to the very end... Thanks for reading
Thank you for this service. Have you recorded the book, The Great Divorce, which is very remarkable?
The Great Divorce! That's a great novel and I totally agree that he should read it. Great comment and great recommendation!
Of Course! This book is very splendid! I Love when C.S. Lewis speaks his mind on divorce and the wonders of love!
👍 listened to all of it twice.
Handsome man with a very soothing voice 😌
Thanks for this! It helped me out with a project.
thank you brother! God bless
Thank you for this.
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Ty. Nicely done.
One that I feel is imperative in our times is, Stalin's secret agents by M Stanton Evans. It blew my mind.
"The third stage of ideological subversion is the crisis phase. By this point, the society is in a state of chaos and a breakdown of trust in institutions. This crisis manifests in political upheaval, economic collapse, or social unrest. The goal is to push the society to a breaking point where people are desperate for solutions, paving the way for radical change." - Yuri Bezmenov
I would love to have you read everything CS Lewis has written 😅
thank you for this
Thank you for reading this. You read it well. Thanks again.
Great job. Some of the comments made the points in the book even better. Thank you, community.
I've heard that this is the philosophical substructure of That Hideous Strength, which I've read many times. Listening to you read The Abolition of Man, I can definitely see it, especially in its criticism of the ultimate nihilism of materialism.
How fascinating....my favorite book by my favorite author. When I was in middle school, I assigned myself the voluntary project of recording at least some of the Narnia books for my local elementary school's library, merely because I loved the books and the writing so much. Now here is this young man reading a C.S. Lewis book of commentary and apology....and nothing else on youtube. And this young man, somehow, has my grandfather's face, as it happens, which makes me wonder...is there a gene for one's favorite author? I'm being facetious, of course there isn't! But this recording makes me wonder what it would have been like, had my grandfather lived longer or had he had time, when he was alive, to read aloud to his grandchildren.....
(It's not really at at all surprising to see someone with my grandfather's face reading a book on youtube....he had the highest IQ on record for his generation, when he took the Stanford Binet IQ test in 1919 upon graduation from college. And so, like the other college educated caucasian males of his day in America, he was tapped to give sperm for the Human Eugenic Breeding Program. Thus, I have uncles and aunts and cousins all around the world because of that program, which my grandfather didn't think much of, making fun of it as a young man, and then allying himself with Roosevelt, against the Nazi's, who took the Eugenics program to its logical conclusion.... I did not learn about this until I was an adult, working with developmentally delayed children in my work. I thought it was important to educate myself about the hhistory of how the developmentally delayed have been treated in this country in the past....which turns out to be a rather hair raising topic when one delves into it. And then I realized that my grandfather had actually been a sperm donor in his youth...but at least he made fun of it, apparently quipping, "What's UP, Doc?" when he would bring his sperm sample into the lab, or wherever it was that they collected them.... That quip, the fact that he enjoyed eating carrots, and his many, many sperm donor children, meant that someone created the character of Bugs Bunny to spoof him. But his kids and grandkids are BRIGHT, and usually kind, as he was. He could have been a total jerk as an adult, with all the fuss made over his IQ and his looks. and instead he made fun of it all and stayed humble and humorous. He especially liked children, but I don't think his work, at the U.S. State Department as a diplomat, allowed him very much time to spend with his own children when he was young. When my Dad had reached the age of twelve, my grandfather made sure to set aside forty five minutes a day, the time from when he got home after work until dinner was on the table, to spend exclusively with my dad, reading the newspaper together and discussing the news and the headlines, together in the living room, while dinner was being prepared. And he took me sightseeing when I visited with him for two weeks...but he didn't know much what to say to a ten year old little girl, though he could see that I was reading books well above grade level, which pleased him very much indeed. He took my snapshot standing in front of all the monuments, and diving off the diving board at the local swimming pool near where he lived in Washington DC. In his career, he helped form the underpinnings of the Democratic Party, behind the scenes, and some of the most deeply rooted ideals of the party come from my grandfather's writings... for what that's worth. Just so you know whose face you carry..... of course, it's not your genetics, but your CHOICES, ....(your Choices, Harry Potter!)... that reveal the content of your character and upbringing! The genes merely give you your talents. Your character and upbringing help you to decide what to do with those talents.
Of course, a mask can mimic almost any facial structure, whereas teeth, fingers, and one's general build are more difficult to fake. This reader's fingers, teeth, and build say "Joe Kennedy" and "Averell Harrimann", "Johnnie Cashmere", and even "Liu Yifei". Sigh. So what was the point of this exercise? To entice me to read this book? I've already read this book, long ago.
The concept of "Men without Chests", is what you get when babies are exposed in utero to certain neuromodulation drugs. And the concept of the head, the chest, and the appetites as defining three different motivation sources that C.S.Lewis describes, goes well with our neuro-anatomical understanding of the sources of human brain structures, some of which, the neocortex, are analogous to Lewis' concept of the 'Head', some, like the "dinosaur brain" are analogous to the gut-based appetites. The "chest", apparently, is analogous to those mammalian brain structures, that really likely do give us loyalty and affection (like the structures that might prompt a mommie badger to nurture her young and defend them against natural predators), and that really are blocked by dopamine-blocking drugs.
Neuromodulation drugs can create a "dinosaur brain" or a "man without a chest" in someone who otherwise would act normally, humanely, with loyalty and affection. Neuromodulation drugs do that by blocking the brain chemical, namely Dopamine, that modulates love and loyalty and affection. When you block Dopamine in an otherwise normal person, you are not "preventing crime" or "managing anger". Rather you are blocking that person's ability to express those functions, namely love, reason, and creativity, that are "that of God" in the human brain. In other words, the modern tendency to neuromodulate the population with dopamine blocking chemicals is creating a race of reptile like subhuman look-alikes, reptilian in their characters, unable fully to love, reason, and create, but otherwise looking just like the rest of us.
In other words, one could say that the age of the "zombie vampires" really is upon us, created not by the vampires themselves, but by our oligarchs' decision to neuromodulate every man, woman, and child with drugs that create brain damaged zombies out of our children and adults by blocking Dopamine, due to dopamine-blocking, teratogenic, neuro modulation drugs sprayed by these oligarchs and their neuro-modudlation companies in every home, car, store, office, school, and church.
p.s. That curl over the right temple is a genuine genetic trait that comes in on both sides of my family...which means that it likely comes from the nearest common ancestor to both my mum and my dad, since my mum had that curl-cowlick and so did my dad's mum, showing in many photographs of each of those two women in her youth. So the curl/cowlick trait must have come from Mary James.....though I haven't seen it manifest in any of her photographs, I haven't really gone looking for it. So, yes, my grandfather might have had it also--because I have Mary James three different times in my ancestral tree, though I don't recall seeing that particular curl in any of his photographs. Nice work, Chipperoo.
My grandfather, of course, is the guy who told "Ricky's" mom, (in the voice of King Friday the Thirteenth from Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, in the perfect blend of stuffy and sweet): "By all means, don't abort your baby. Heavens, we can handle babies. We have always handled babies! In fact, uh...uhm....ahem....we rather... like ... babies. At least, we're quite fond of them, quite fond of them, indeed. We'll make a home for him with a lovely middle aged couple of foster parents, right next door to my son's home in Queens! That home will be safe and out of the way, where no one would expect to find him, but also convenient for his parents to visit him if they so choose....yes, yes, by all means."
Pity we didn't recognize one another in college. It would have prevented a world of problems.
Hey there, I greatly appreciate what you do, I personally love not just reading but listening to good books being read. As a proposal, could you do "Philosophical Foundations of a Christian Faith" By William Lane Craig?
Listened to the end. What about CS Lewis "God in the Docs"? Well read, thanks man!
This book is a hard read, well done, sir. I have just finished reading, God In The Dock. which I came across in a charity shop. It's' hard to belive the same author wrote both books.
Thanks! Much appreciated!
Nice setup:)
SUBLIME!!! HAHAHA KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK BROTHER!!!!
Are you describing the video, or your feelings about the video?
If you would like, to read as a complement to this, the "Space Trilogy"?
The works / reading of Saint Augustin. He wrote documents in which is amassed 5 million words. From design to math, philosophy etc.
I listened to the end.
How about reading, “The Disappearance of Moral Knowledge” by Dallas Willard et. al. ?
Thank you!!
Thank you for this! You have an excellent voice for such a didactic work!
Thank you!
Thank you!!!
Thank you for reading this!
Thanks for the reading homie! If you're going to do more of these please speak facing the mic, can't really hear this in the car. Again thank you.
very talented, should read more to us. Thanks
do you have a podcast?
TQ for this and Yes I made it to the end
Great Read ..... Do more?
you should read more books. You did really good.
Thank you
"If I pay you to carry me, I am not therefore myself a strong man"
I’d love to hear “Men of the Bible” by Dwight L. Moody
Well read. What's next?
Thank you for your reading of this book, it was very interesting.
That Hideous Strength
Thank you for reading this book. Do you have Capitalism and Slavery in that huge book cabinet of yours?
I just checked, and this came out 10 years after brave new world. I'm rather surprised. I guess the idea had to be written in fiction before it could be made concrete.
32:56- Chapter 2 The Way
Great read! Right to the end! Oh, as for when we began to abandon reason...
...I'm gonna say...in the garden of eden!
or in Eden we found our reason :)
@@eponaalbion Ok, if you believe you are a person of, "reason," by all means give us all your reason for saying that.
(This should be interesting...)
Well conversing with a friend the other day they explained about the three trees, duality and spirit, using the paleo Hebrew logos, to reveal more light on the subject at hand, to glean any insight i find accuracy of understanding is fundamental to reason, so firstly we need accuracy as to the allegories and metaphors and their true intent, secondly we need to not marr this information with ones ego, bias and beliefs as a start, otherwise any gleamed meaning is polluted by the self. Once one wrestles their self into balance then one can start authentically trying to understand the whole, the paleo Hebrew gives us more accuracy then the freemasonic King James' Bible/book, so with the more accurate information you can now have a more accurate understanding of the esoteric/occult concepts within the Sun Book/holy bible.
Now we have these concepts understood more accurately you can see all people who undertake selfwork an gather accurate information end up in a similar place of understanding, once the concepts have been absorbed accurately you see them in most of the ancient worlds documents, the labels are different the concepts aren't. The Adamu/Ad/man and Lileth Eve/Lelu are aeons apart but expressing similar if not identical concepts. The pantheon, we called "gods", so the concept i have is that the gods were possibly upset at their creation, here to serve an slave for them archons possibly, gained sentients, technology, and rebelled against these "wise ones" .
@@eponaalbion OK, that was sheer stupidity. Let's see the second comment...
"I'm just going to say rta and pretend that's true..."
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trying to finish the horse and the boy....
WHAT THE HECK IS THE TAO!!!
You have a nice mic but you should take the time to take the noise out with a de-noiser and your mouth sounds with a de-clicker
It would be appreciated if you could narrate beyond good and evil, adding you perception!
Will
I respect the Steven Crowder Mug Club. Great Book and a great reader.