I've Gotta Be You
I was reading NRO’s list of recommended summer reads and I learned there was a new biography of C.S. Lewis. I went out to read the comments on Amazon and the gist of the new material is that C.S. Lewis drank a lot. Borderline alcoholic. But I think that’s yet another example of the historian’s mistake of judging the past by the standards of the present. Everyone drank like fish back then. Everyone was “borderline alcoholic”, at least by our present-day MADD-inspired standards. Which is just another indication of just how influenced we are by our society. That’s not to say we don’t have free will, but our behavior lives in a very cramped living space.
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