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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:28:26 +0200, Steve Hayes   
    wrote:   
      
   >Here's an interesting article on neologisms, and it gives an example   
   >of one made up by C.S. Lewis -- Bulverism.   
      
   Next installment here:   
      
   C.S. Lewis was one of the earliest users of the word “technocracy”–a   
   word that was important in our thinking about the world wars and more   
   recently in the way that technology seems to be worming its way into   
   our patterns in a deep, deep way. In that WWII context, Lewis is in   
   concerned in The Abolition of Man and in essays about an   
   “omnicompetent global technocracy”:   
      
       Technocracy is the form to which a planned society must tend. Now   
   I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking   
   outside their special subjects. Let scientists tell us about sciences.   
   But government involves questions about the good for man, and justice,   
   and what things are worth having at what price; and on these a   
   scientific training gives a man’s opinion no added value. Let the   
   doctor tell me I shall die unless I do so-and-so; but whether life is   
   worth having on those terms is no more a question for him than for any   
   other man (“Is Progress Possible” = “Willing Slaves of the Welfare   
   State,” responding to C.P. Snow’s “Man in Society”)   
      
   https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2017/10/18/charientocracy/   
      
      
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