"Consider the advantages"
1 Comments Published by Nincompoopery has ensued on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 4:51 PM.
I am currently reading That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis. This is the third and final installment in his Space Trilogy. I am about halfway through it and if the second half is nearly as good as the first it might very well become my favorite book of all time.
I want to share a paragraph that I found interesting and perhaps insightful of our modern society's desire to control the natural world (even though this book was written in the 40s). In this selection the character Filostrato is proposing that trees on earth be done away with and replaced by something more manageable.
"But consider the advantages! You get tired of him in one place: two workmen carry him somewhere else: wherever you please. It never dies. No leaves to fall, no twigs, no birds building nests, no muck or mess."
"...I foresee nothing but the art tree all over the earth. In fact, we clean the planet."
"I would not have any birds either. On the art tree I would have the art birds all singing when you press a switch inside the house. When you are tired of the singing you switch them off. Consider again the improvement. No feathers dropped about, no nests, no eggs, no dirt."
I want to share a paragraph that I found interesting and perhaps insightful of our modern society's desire to control the natural world (even though this book was written in the 40s). In this selection the character Filostrato is proposing that trees on earth be done away with and replaced by something more manageable.
"But consider the advantages! You get tired of him in one place: two workmen carry him somewhere else: wherever you please. It never dies. No leaves to fall, no twigs, no birds building nests, no muck or mess."
"...I foresee nothing but the art tree all over the earth. In fact, we clean the planet."
"I would not have any birds either. On the art tree I would have the art birds all singing when you press a switch inside the house. When you are tired of the singing you switch them off. Consider again the improvement. No feathers dropped about, no nests, no eggs, no dirt."
Ha! I knew the Art Museum was evil! They are trying to destroy our connections to the natural world. This just proves my theory that the battle between the andriods and the real humans is growing closer.