That Hideous Truth: C.S. Lewis Predicted Technocratic Globalism and Scientific Dictatorship

Mar 27, 2024 by Dave Doveton

By Steven Tucker, European Conservative.

Eighty years on from both the completion of C.S. Lewis’ classic science-fiction parable That Hideous Strength, and the Dumbarton Oaks Conference which led to the creation of the UN, have the worst totalitarian nightmares of Lewis’ imagination finally come to pass for real?

Try to imagine a world in which democracy is wholly dead, having been replaced by its own deliberate inverted simulacrum, a surface-deep regime—an atheistic, science-worshipping, globalist technocracy—in which hideous non-human creatures tempt a fallen elitist ruling class into entering irrevocably into the satanic realm of post-humanity, facilitated by hubristic feats of industrial and mechanical engineering.

If this all sounds like something stolen from a science-fiction novel, then that’s because it is—the novel in question being 1945’s That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis, which (publication schedules being what they are) he had actually finished writing some time prior to the end of WWII. It is a horrific and satirical prediction of what Lewis presciently perceived the post-war world most likely had in store for an unsuspecting humanity that naively thought democracy was about to triumph forever with the looming twin defeats of Germany and Japan: namely, a new form of ‘benign’ globalist dictatorship in disguise.

The tool through which such a false-faced regime would be managed, Lewis foresaw, was likely to be some benevolent-sounding organisation of the same basic kind that was soon to become manifest for real in the shape of the United Nations (UN). Although not officially established until 1945, just after the war’s end, this year, 2024, marks 80 years since the basic format of the UN was effectively formulated with the 1944 Dumbarton Oaks Conference. The Conference was held in Washington DC between the then Allied Great Powers who were slated hereafter to become the post-war planet’s main governing ‘Four Policemen’: the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and China.

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