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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 24, 2026

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re: the can't do spirit of U.S. techno-optimism Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive

I try not to think about how much I've been spied upon myself. I suspect it must be considerable, and I fear in particular that #Caltech has quietly never had my eye off me because crimes had been done upon my person there. And I did keep using that et@ugcs.caltech.edu email address for years, blithering on Usenet and so forth. I think I was using that e-mail address for much of my #CSLewis correspondence back when I was on various mailing lists. I have to be wary. Perhaps I should start thinking more seriously about safeguarding myself. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 24, 2026

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A minute amount of non-European (or non-colonial) work gets a nod of representation in the "Western canon" but otherwise it's very exclusive and, needless to say, it's very 'white' and comprises mostly cis straight men, with a predominance of British and American figures. English is the unspoken lingua franca of the "Western canon". A small collection of "Western" creators have the distinction of being regarded as uniquely mythopoeic and influential on shaping the monomyth, such as Sir James Frazer (q.v. The Golden Bough), Robert Graves, #CSLewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, Joseph Campbell, and even J. K. Rowling. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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So what's up with Clive Staples Lewis? I would like to know. I think the world wants to know. Surely this good Earth and her peoples must have their bellyful of #CSLewis by now—at least, with C. S. Lewis the tinpot saint of a zillion right-wing Christians, who clearly think that Jack Lewis's apologetics prove that Christianity is real, or something. I am curious to see that new film of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I am hopeful of a bit of sly subversion that will feel like a gut-punch to the solar plexus of Christians already peeved that so many of their other heroes have been lost to them, tainted by "cultural Marxism". Peter Wigand reports that the loudest chatter out of the Twitter Christians is howling about that Chris Nolan Odyssey film and...jeez, doesn't that just say something about the true nature of the right-wing Christian faith. ~Chara of Pnictogen

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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Obviously I am questioning the salvation and sincerity of #CSLewis. There's worrying details everywhere. He describes completely losing the sense of deep longing or Sehnsucht of which he writes in Surprised by Joy and gives the impression of thinking that he found his joy...oh dear oh dear...and that's wrong because the longing for Heaven should ALWAYS feel powerful to a mortal if they're actually still on Heaven's path. So if Clive Staples Lewis strayed from the right way, where did he end up? Examination of the imagery from The Pilgrim's Regress, full of upsetting details, may furnish a clue. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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As a result all of Lewis's hatreds come flying out, loosely contained by the rickety narrative, until at the center there's...nothing with any form, just seething and scintillating chaos, like the Seas of Chaos from Steven Brust's writings or like the unearthly fire that bursts through the Earth in Charles Stansby Williams's The Place of the Lion, the book from which #CSLewis clearly stole the idea for Aslan. The Chronicles of #Narnia do not resemble The Place of the Lion, mind you. He didn't plagiarize. But--ironically, rather like a character from that same book--it's like Lewis became intoxicated with the lion's power so he thought to transplant that into his Narnia books. The fool. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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Soapy Sam from Rumpole of the Bailey never openly refers to Jack Lewis that I recall but one can be entirely certain that his entire personality and way of dealing with people was largely programmed by reading C. S. Lewis constantly and digging into the mountains of subsidiary material, for Lewis is obscenely oversold and overmarketed. Anyway that first book from #CSLewis is called The Pilgrim's Regress, it's loosely based on John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (which I've not finished but seems a far sounder work than anything of Lewis's) but it begins Lewis's discreditable habit of mining his own acquaintances for material. It's like he read Dante and decided the most important thing about The Divine Comedy was the Inferno, and the most important thing about the Inferno was Dante's rubbishing the Italian leaders he knew and despised. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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I use that "pseudo" delicately because I don't want the fallacious nature of extremist Christians to be construed, as most milder Christians have taken it, as an excuse to say "oh they're not REAL Christians" and wash their hands of dealing with them. They SAY they have the true faith and therefore everyone else who affirms a Christian faith has (in my opinion) a moral obligation to deal sternly with right-wing Christians. I think the most damning evidence against #CSLewis must surely be found in the first book he rushed to print after his conversion and...is it known if Jack Lewis might have already been feeling out the publication angle? See what I mean, it's hard to believe that Lewis wouldn't be that crass. He just seems to have been like that, a Soapy Sam Ballard type. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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Much about hardline Christianity resembles a cult of St. Paul far more than any sort of cult of Jesus. It's not that Jesus isn't important to them but he's trivial to them, a solved problem, reduced to a magazine cover or a plastic Buddy Jesus doll. They put far more energy into mining Saul of Tarsus's questionable literary output for weapons. St. Paul himself was like that. He was like them, like Billy Graham and Pete Hegseth and Clive Staples Lewis: a careerist "Christian", a fellow who seemed to regard the Incarnation chiefly as good managerial advice and an excuse to boss people around. #CSLewis must have fallen for that style of Christianity, or pseudo-Christianity. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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Plainly their experience of salvation...which probably isn't actually true salvation in any sense, let's put it that way...changes their personality completely. They become bivalent in a curious way too disquieting to get into right now. The worrying thing is that #CSLewis, who should have known better, seems to have undergone quite this sort of false conversion. That's roughly what I think "born again" Christians are, they are Christians who think they experienced Jesus somehow but didn't and now they're locked into a peculiar semi-delusion. I assert that traces of this are scattered throughout Lewis's writing. His own career suggests it: he "converts" and instantly he's like all the other "evangelicals", acting as if he's the Second Coming--of St. Paul. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026

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Anyway this fellow, whom I will simply call Jack X for now (I can't call him simply "Jack" because that's the name of our adorable Assassin friend who always craves sweets) immediately ran off to the Grey Town, which some of you might remember as a location from #CSLewis and The Great Divorce, in which Lewis does a number of perplexing things such as write himself in twice, giving his name to one half and sending the other galloping off to 'Heaven' on a steed made from the unnamed fellow's sins. That's right. Clive Staples Lewis wrote himself getting saved...saved, you understand, SAVED in the sense understood by Protestant #Christian fanatics (and others). Everyone knows the drill. They act as if they'd already gone to Heaven and their body just needs a few decades to catch up with their minds. (cont'd)

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Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 20, 2026

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Gosh, what does this remind me of...this seems awfully familiar...I mean there's Zardoz of course, but I was thinking of something else: That Hideous Strength by #CSLewis. "And so," said Straik, "the lessons you learned at your mother's knee return. God will have power to give eternal reward and eternal punishment." "God?" said Mark. "How does He come into it? I don't believe in God." "But, my friend," said Filostrato, "does it follow that because there was no God in the past that there will be no God also in the future?" The N.I.C.E., or at least some persons within the N.I.C.E. (the villainous quango at the heart of Lewis's novel) wish to create a technological god, one who really and truly has the powers that the Christian God only has hypothetically. (cont'd)

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Robert Fairhead @tallandtrue@aus.social · Jul 15, 2026

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. ~ #CSLewis #quotes #integrity

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The Christian Post @christianpost@na.social · Mar 14, 2026

Critical theory: Here's how CS Lewis would've dismantled it Critical theory enshrines Bulverism, a fallacious form of reasoning, at the very heart of its approach to knowledge. #Criticaltheories #woke #CSLewis #atheism Source: https://www.christianpost.com/voices/critical-theory-heres-how-cs-lewis-wouldve-dismantled-it.html #Faith #ChristianNews #Bible

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