The State Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Want
Commentary
The words of C.S. Lewis’s masterpiece, “The Screwtape Letters,” help me understand the ethos of the era we are living in when “feelings” are held as superior to the wisdom of hundreds of known generations before us:
“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.”
Numb is how most people feel as they busily try to provide for their families and simultaneously comply with the demands of any combination of California’s 6,000 governmental entities. Further, the state’s rapacious legislature is relentless and exhausting as it seeks to control every aspect of our personal and private lives. Government prefers a docile and subservient flock….