Source: Mindset Shifts
by Barry Brownstein
“In his essay ‘Membership,’ contained in his collection The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis wrote, ‘A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion: to ignore the subject may be fatal cowardice for the one as for the other.’ Politics, Lewis explained, is not ‘the natural food of the mind’ but a ‘necessary evil.’ However, too much emphasis on politics has become ‘a new and deadly disease.’ Lewis compared fresh fruit to canned fruit. The latter can be necessary for storage, but Lewis observed he had met people who learned to prefer the tinned fruit to the fresh. Similarly, among us are those who prefer to weigh the promises of candidates as a pathway to societal advancement rather than shore up the foundations of a free society.” (10/01/24)
https://mindsetshifts.substack.com/p/principles-are-the-antidote-to-politics