Perhaps you are familiar with the works of C.S. Lewis because you have watched the movie series “The Chronicles of Narnia” or you are familiar with his best friend, J.R.R. Tolkien who wrote “The Lord of The Rings,” (watch “The Lord of The Rings Dethroned” Seminar by Cory Endrulat) or you are a devoted Christian who wants to improve on your faith. However, there is a great warning in his work titled “The Abolition of Man” where he argues how exactly mankind will lose their humanity, how they will lose their heart or soul, using World War 2 as a prime example. When he examined historic events, he was able to look deeper, at the human condition itself and the moral choices which led to said events. For Lewis, everything came down to the distinction between good and evil.
This distinction, if lost, he argues, will lead to the Abolition of Man. However, as one might assume, morality can be argued about for generations of time, with all sorts of differing ideologies and perspectives. Lewis in his works, helps us to navigate this problem, and see just where and how morality can be essential. Thanks, and not thanks, to the end of World War 2 and the abolition of Slavery, as these should have never had to occur in the first place, we may learn from history to not repeat it, and gain a firmer understanding of morality. From Slavery Gone For Good, Black Book Edition:
“People talk about the notion of ‘natural rights’ or a ‘natural moral law’ and what is right or wrong. This was the main argument of conscience or moral suasion used by Abolitionists to end chattel slavery after thousands of years. Though exact definitions may be disputed, and our application may be contradictive, around the world most people have a general basic morality, which author C.S. Lewis details from every culture in his book, ‘The Abolition of Man.’ He additionally warns us about the dangers of moral relativism, that which disregards morality, and states that humanity will abolish itself without such long-held teachings. Among those teachings may be shared The Golden Rule as ‘do unto others what you would have done to yourself,’ or Karma as ‘you reap what you sow,’ or the Law of Attraction as ‘the energy you emit is the energy you attract,’ ‘energy flows where attention goes,’ ‘as you think, feel and act, so you shall be,’ or the Law of Cause and Effect as ‘effect invariably follows cause,’ ‘for every action, there exists an equal and opposing reaction.’ It is often understood that a wrong action is that which results in harm, is involuntary, is any form of theft or a violation of property and self-ownership or an act of violence. Abolitionists similarly appealed to ‘god’s government’ or ‘higher laws’ as the reason why man is not to be a slave to another man... Morality is not legality. Just because something is ‘legal,’ does not make it right.”
Let us learn more from the man, C.S. Lewis, himself, regarding the nature of morality and legality, how the two may relate with one another:
“I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality (Tao) and attained power, has used that power benevolently.” “The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree; if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.” “The Tao, which others may call Natural Law or Traditional Morality or the First Principles of Practical Reason or the First Platitudes, is not one among a series of possible systems of value. It is the sole source of all value judgments. If it is rejected, all value is rejected. If any value is retained, it is retained. The effort to refute it and raise a new system of value in its place is self-contradictory. There has never been, and never will be, a radically new judgment of value in the history of the world. What purport to be new systems or ideologies, consist of fragments from the Tao itself, arbitrarily wrenched from their context in the whole and then swollen to madness in their isolation, yet still owing to the Tao and to it alone such validity as they posses.” “Either we are rational spirit obliged for ever to obey the absolute values of the Tao [natural law], or else we are mere nature to be kneaded and cut into new shapes for the pleasures of masters who must, by hypothesis, have no motive but their own ‘natural’ impulses. Only the Tao provides a common human law of action which can over arch rulers and ruled alike. A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.” (Learn more about the “Tao” and Taoism on theliberator.us/tao)
Nowadays, we may be able to look at his words and warnings, even observing the concept of the Tao and eastern philosophy, to help us see where defining “morality” may not even be necessary, since it’s a term abused into doing evil in the name of doing good. While this Eastern Philosophical perspective is shared among the works of Jason Gregory, we can simply understand it without any need of this philosophy as well, from the powerful works of Larken Rose, who deeply studied the nature of power and it’s contradictions:
“Whether the issue is math, morality, or anything else, there is a huge difference between trying to determine what is true and trying to dictate what is true. The former is useful; the latter is insane... In short, if there is such a thing as right and wrong at all, however you wish to define those terms, then the ‘laws' or ‘government' are always illegitimate and worthless. Every person is (by definition) morally Obligated to do what he feels is right. If a ‘law' tells him to do otherwise, that 'law' is inherently illegitimate, and should be disobeyed. And if a 'law' happens to coincide with what is right, the `law' is simply irrelevant. The reason, for example, to refrain from committing murder is because murder is inherently wrong. Whether or not some politicians enacted 'legislation' declaring murder to be wrong — whether or not they 'outlawed' it — has no effect whatsoever on the morality of the act. 'Legislation,' no matter what it says, is never the reason that something is good or bad. As a result, even 'laws' prohibiting evil acts, such as assault, murder and theft, are illegitimate. While people should not commit such acts, it is because the acts themselves are intrinsically evil, not because man-made 'laws' say they are wrong. And if there is no obligation to obey the 'laws' of the politicians, then, by definition, they have no 'authority.'"
Considering the fact that Democide is the “top cause of unnatural death” and this represents “death by government,” it should be strikingly evident that the words of C.S. Lewis needs to be at the least considered, especially with the fact that most people live with a contradictive morality through their belief system called Statism or Mental Slavery. Don’t know what that is and why? Learn more. Don’t think it’s the case? Let us know more. Learn more by reading Slavery Gone For Good: Black Book Edition, or visit TheLiberator.us for quizzes and a simple “learn” and “action” page.