The Necessity of Chivalry

By C.S.Lewis.

There's not much more to add.  If Lewis's time seemed on the brink of insanity, our modern age is stark raving mad.  We literally have plunged into an Orwellian daydream in ways that Orwell never could have imagined.  We almost act as if we're itching to put into practice everything the last century warned us about through its own follies and atrocities.  And we do it based on a suffocating level of hubris.

One of my sons once quipped that the universe has to be infinite.  Otherwise it wouldn't be large enough to contain the space needed between the arrogance of the modern generations, and their utter worthlessness in terms of lack of accomplishment.

I'm not saying medieval chivalry is the way to go.  But for a society unraveling in a world unraveling faster, it offers at its worst more than the best we are producing today.

HT John C. Wright.