>you shouldn't try to get to the inner circle of your organization because it's just bad, okay?Did Lewis have a really bad experience with this sort of thing? It feels arbitrary and deeply personal.
>>25084615The only takeaway I got from this one is CS Lewis going>I feel a sudden and holy urge to beat the shit out of Satan, the Prince of this world
>if you get to the inner circle you'll find out not only how incredibly evil the people pulling the strings really are, but also how incredibly retarded they are despite their power and influencevery relevant today
>>25085238Rich people are smart. If they weren't smart they wouldn't have billions, would they?
>>25084615The message isn't that you should never enter an inner circle, it's that obsessive pursuit of the feeling of elitism and exclusivity and specialness is corrupting. It also explains why inner circles tend to be corrupt, because many who enter it have been corrupted on the path to it.
>>25084615You've never worked as a manager in a unionized setting before.
>>25085257If they're so smart then how did Epstein get banned from Xbox Live???>>25084615The book is about how scientism is evil and its corrosive ideology of "objectivity" erodes our ability to relate to one another properly. There's a reason the book ends with Mark going off to fuck Jane, rekindling the relationship they'd lost to his involvement with NICE.
>>25086254>NICElmao I forgot that was its name. I read a library copy of this book, but I'm thinking I might have to actually buy it, it was a lot of fun.
>>25085238>I was prepared for the world to be cruel and evil. I was not prepared for it to also be this gay and retarded.
I think Out of the Silent Planet is probably the best one out of the trilogy, but they're all quite good
>>25086198That seems like a roundabout conclusion, it seems to me more sensible that people aren't corrupted by it, but that only corrupt people would be drawn to it. It's like coming to the conclusion that money must corrupt people because CEO's are disproportionately psychopathic compared to the normal population, instead of the much more obvious conclusion that vicious, uncaring narcissists are both drawn to and primed to succeed in such positions.
>>25088732>he hasn't read the Weight of Glory
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