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Tyranny does not collapse when men are adapted to servitude. It endures, because man himself has been mutilated into an organism fit only for
control. The system does not fail; it succeeds beyond recognition. The expectation that tyranny inevitably collapses under its own weight is
itself one of the most dangerous illusions inherited from a less
socially engineered age. It presumes that man, when sufficiently
oppressed, will recoil against his condition and demand liberty. That presumption no longer holds.
The evidence of the last century demonstrates the opposite; that
tyranny, when strategically administered, endures by reconstituting man
so that he desires his servitude and defends the very system that
degrades him. What fails is not the system but man himself, remade to
fit the systemrCOs requirements.
The American Founders foresaw the danger. They warned that once liberty
was abandoned, citizens would become fit only to be managed as rCyhorses
and dogsrCO. That phrase might sound like rhetorical flourish but it was
an anthropological diagnosis.
To the extent that self-government is abandoned, man ceases to exist as
a moral agent and must be treated as a domesticated creature.
The administrative and welfare states proved the point. They did not
collapse as critics predicted. They thrived because people were
conditioned to regard dependence as rCysecurityrCO and security as rCyfreedomrCO. Far from resisting their loss of agency, generations adapted
to it. The system endured precisely because it aligned with their
appetites, reshaping those appetites in the process.
This dynamic was not accidental, it was engineered. Educational theory
was redirected from the formation of judgment to the conditioning of behaviour. Behaviourism replaced moral philosophy, conditioning people
to respond to incentives rather than to discern truth.
rCLWe make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise.rCY (C.S. Lewis, Abolition of Man)
Therapeutic models supplanted conscience, redefining moral
responsibility as pathology requiring treatment. Schooling trained
children not to govern themselves but to integrate smoothly into managed systems. The combined effect was to hollow out manrCOs inner constitution, stripping him of the very faculties by which liberty is exercised. The tyrannical system does not need to crush liberty from without when it
can dissolve the appetite for liberty from within. C.S. Lewis recognized
this operation with clinical clarity. In his essay The Poison of
Subjectivism, he diagnosed the decisive maneuver; values were recast as projections of preference rather than objective features of reality.
rCLIf values are subjective, then manrCOs impulses are the only guides of conductrCa he becomes merely a set of appetites.rCY (Lewis, Poison of Subjectivism)
Once this subjectivism was accepted, generations could no longer
conceive of law as grounded in nature and morality discernible by reason.
rCLLawrCa is founded in nature, and reason is her only expositor.rCY (James Wilson, Lectures on Law)
In The Abolition of Man, he extended the analysis to its conclusion; the conditioners (technocrats in education, science and governance) would
not simply rule over men but abolish them, replacing them with pliable creatures suited to scientific management. The very phrase rCyabolition of manrCO was not a metaphor but a precise statement of what occurs when the inner constitution is rewritten to extinguish the desire for liberty.
Taken together, the Founders and Lewis describe a single continuum. When
men abandon self-government, they cease to function as men and are
reduced to beasts of management. When subjectivism supplants realism,
the possibility of appeal to natural law disappears and conditioning
takes its place. The welfare state and administrative bureaucracy were
not aberrations but preparatory stages. They habituated multiple
generations to accept dependency as normal and to police one another
against dissent. Algorithmic governance is now the consummation of this process. It does not collapse but perfects the system, removing even the memory of liberty by embedding control into digital protocols that
appear neutral and scientific.
rCLWhen subjectivism reigns, there remains no appeal to a law above men.rCY (Lewis, Poison of Subjectivism)
The forensic truth is this; tyranny does not fail when man is adapted to servitude. It rebrands, evolves and solidifies. The cycle of collapse
and renewal does not apply where the very anthropology of man has been rewritten.
rCLThe physical sciences had reached the stage at which man could become
the master of man.rCY (Lewis)
What the Founders warned against and Lewis articulated is now fully
manifest; once man is conditioned to equate management with freedom, the system not only endures but becomes eternal in appearance, for it has abolished the citizen capable of recognizing it as tyranny.
rCLThe final stage of manrCOs conquest of Nature is the conquest of man by man.rCY (Lewis AOM)
rCLWhen we forsake the eternal law, human law is nothing but a name for
that which is dictated by power.rCY (James Wilson)
The rCyfreedomrCO now being promised is the commodification of your own humanity. This is no longer fiction. It is the Human Ledger. Once man is deconstructed, his body, data, fertility and psychology are commodities.
What Lewis warned and what Wilson feared, is being monetized under Technocracy.
rCLThe lawrCa must be regulated by the eternal law. Without it, there is no liberty.rCY (James Wilson)
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