CS Lewis is my excuse to write
The brilliance of Substack
Ryan Stax wrote to me that he liked how I write about different things I’m interested in, not pegged into one niche. While I’ll take any compliment any day (there used to be a time it rained down on me), I didn’t perceive that I was actually veering to and fro as the wind takes me but, in fact, participating in what I believe Substack’s superpower:
Trying to figure things out.
Or, at least, make sense of things.
Carl Lewis, rather CS Lewis, best describes this in the introduction to Reflections on the Psalms:
“I write as one amateur to another, talking about difficulties I have met, or lights I have gained, when reading the Psalms, with the hope that this might at any rate interest, and sometimes even help, other inexpert readers.”
There used to be a time when talking and being around others was taken for granted, and you could share your experiences, thoughts, dreams, visions, etc
And apparently, that was what helped push the friendship of CS Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien into being great men of literature
(to a point they couldn’t stand each other’s company)
In a world very disconnected, before money, before fame, before yet another lousy Netflix show, sit down, read, engage, and share your thoughts, and be part of something.
It doesn’t have to be great as you imagine it because you are great now.
Look at how much in trillions the tech giants have spent to replace one human being with artificial intelligence
Robots…are
just like poetry, great literature, or painting
a mere reflection of some form of humanity
Artificial has been with us for a while
Artificial flavors
Genetically Modified food
Plastic clothes
Lousy, almost unusable toys, for kids
eBooks
Nothing is real anymore
But they still can’t replace humans because what would the entire point be?
Billionaires going into bunkers? Buying islands with Bimbos?
That’s not humanity and it is complete hubris
We had horsepower, and now we will have mindpower through AI,
But the biggest moat is humanity
And what better way to play it than MANpower?
Have a pleasant afternoon,
Eric