C.S. Lewis on The Poison of Subjectivism

C.S. Lewis’s wonderful essay ‘The Poison of Subjectivism’ is recommended reading, and has never been more necessary than it is now that as a society we are transforming human nature in the name of progress.  In it, Lewis notes:

“If “good” and “better” are terms deriving their sole meaning from the ideology of each people, then of course ideologies themselves cannot be better or worse than one another. Unless the measuring rod is independent of the things measured, we can do no measuring. For the same reason it is useless to compare the moral ideas of one age with those of another: progress and decadence are alike meaningless words.”

Here it is presented in a YouTube video in what is called a ‘doodle’.