The Abolition of Man

"It is not that they are bad men. They are not men at all. Stepping outside the Tao, they have stepped into the void. Nor are their subjects necessarily unhappy men. They are not men at all: they are artefacts. Man's final conquest has proved to be the abolition of Man." -C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

This entire book is just a little bit over my head. i think it's because he goes back and forth between explaining what so-and-so thinks the world should be like, what's wrong with what so-and-so thinks, what he thinks, and what the world is actually like. That's a lot to keep track. I'm pretty sure i agree with what he's saying. As men move towards a more atheistic society, they become less and less human.

I don't like that Lewis doesn't use the Bible. I understand that perhaps he's crafting a non-religious argument, but the piece doesn't seem right without God. It seems just not right.