I was randomly perusing the book of many faces, when I stumbled upon this C. S. Lewis quote on his fan page. I thought it was pretty interesting. I have no clue which of his writings it is from. But I think he hits on some important things here that are really relevant to our current culture. I don't have time to go into all I see in it now, but I wonder what you see...a chance to comment perhaps?
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classes with infants, imbeciles and domestic animals."
--C. S. Lewis
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