![]() ![]() ![]() This is perhaps overall a more helpful and straightforward way in to the main theme. The other main point of reference to understand our times is the Tower of Babel. ![]() Lewis at his prescient best and it supplies Mr Tinker with an allegory for our time, as he spotlights the hugely influential role today of cultural Marxism in its drive to conform public attitudes to a godless agenda by stealth and alarming streaks of totalitarianism. These intellectual elitists and their extra-terrestrial collaborators seek to win over the public to their programme with a mixture of violence and propaganda. Lewis, published in 1945, describing the misguided efforts of a group of deluded and dangerous utopians to fashion a new efficient world order with the help of evil alien life forms. That Hideous Strength is actually the title of the third book in a sci-fi trilogy by C. But it succeeds admirably in drawing our attention to a dangerous intellectual and spiritual current of our time: ‘cultural Marxism’. Perhaps it needs a few more pages to quite hit that target. A book offering to tell us ‘how the West was lost’ has set itself a very ambitious target. ![]()
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