Comments on: Ideology, Institutions, and Modern Science http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/12/19/ideology-institutions-and-modern-science/ A First Things Blog Sun, 19 May 2013 20:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: andrew http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/12/19/ideology-institutions-and-modern-science/comment-page-1/#comment-84246 andrew Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:44:01 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=53642#comment-84246 Lewis once wrote — I am sorry I don’t remember where specifically — that he had more in common with pre-modern pagans than with modern believers. The students in the article are so thoroughly modern they don’t even see it…. The air they have breathed all their lives still reeks of the Baconian conquest of nature, and its presuppositions have been integrated into their minds the way food is integrated into their bodies.

In a sense, Lewis was probably born into the “wrong” century. And how to turn the clock back? How to combat the abolition of man? With grace, wonder, delight, truth, goodness, beauty…. Destroying N.I.C.E from the inside with, well, love. Then again, perhaps I’m being naive.

]]> By: Ray Ingles http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/12/19/ideology-institutions-and-modern-science/comment-page-1/#comment-84244 Ray Ingles Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:17:56 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=53642#comment-84244

Do not many of our political leaders often express an impatience with the forms and formalities of constitutional government, deprecating the “red tape” that the figures associated with N.I.C.E. also scorn?

I’m not sure if there’s a politician of any stripe that fails to deprecate “red tape”. Most are willing to support or increase red tape when it’s in their interest, though.

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