But Lewis’s social vision is not our main concern here. If you wish to read more on that, take and read Screwtape’s toast, as well as Lewis’s essay “Democratic Education” (and then read a newspaper to see just how true Lewis’s words have become). For our purposes, the real point is that the envious attempt to level all superiority and human differences, under the mask of equality, is destined to fail.
God made a hierarchical world; therefore, people hunger for hierarchy. If we deny this appetite in the name of equality and “I’m as good as you,” it will simply reassert itself in another form. “Where men are forbidden to honor a king they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.”9
One has only to consider the heroes and the famous of the modern world to see how much poison we’ve gobbled. It would be no surprise to Lewis that a thoroughly egalitarian society would wish to “keep up with the Kardashians.”
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