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C.S. Lewis –
Willings Slaves of the Welfare State 1958
"Let us deceive ourselves no longer. It is up to each of us to create our own reality. For the bureaucrat knows he has far more power than anyone realizes. We must remind ourselves that detail and statistics, in excess, can make any argument seem true, even if it is not. And thus, the appeal to authority goes ignored or misused."
Lewis criticises the expansion of government control. A society overwhelmed by bureaucracy and data-driven reasoning can lose its moral clarity.
Warning against trusting authorities too readily when they use data as a means to justify their control.
Written during the 1950s, when the modern welfare state expanded significantly. His concern was not with welfare itself but with the potential for bureaucratic structures to undermine individual freedoms and moral agency by replacing ethical considerations with purely technical or data-driven decisions. Making individuals compliant; creating a society of "willing slaves".
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Willings Slaves of the Welfare State 1958
"Let us deceive ourselves no longer. It is up to each of us to create our own reality. For the bureaucrat knows he has far more power than anyone realizes. We must remind ourselves that detail and statistics, in excess, can make any argument seem true, even if it is not. And thus, the appeal to authority goes ignored or misused."
Lewis criticises the expansion of government control. A society overwhelmed by bureaucracy and data-driven reasoning can lose its moral clarity.
Warning against trusting authorities too readily when they use data as a means to justify their control.
Written during the 1950s, when the modern welfare state expanded significantly. His concern was not with welfare itself but with the potential for bureaucratic structures to undermine individual freedoms and moral agency by replacing ethical considerations with purely technical or data-driven decisions. Making individuals compliant; creating a society of "willing slaves".
Read