Elon Musk is serious about enabling humanity to become multiplanetary. This 2014 interview (link below) is the best resource to capture his thoughts on this subject. He still reaffirms this goal today.

I'm not against colonization of Mars or building a starship that could carry and sustain a population. It actually sounds cool. But it seems to beg the question of what we are here for in the first place. Without agreement on that, you can end up in a dangerous place.

People who think like Musk seem to think the purpose of existing is just to exist. We're conscious at a high level, so we have to be sure that we as a species go on being conscious. And if that's our primary purpose, then you can do all kinds of terrible things in service of that goal: "For the greater good ..."

For Musk in particular, I think it allows himself to excuse his own behavior, such as fathering nearly a dozen children by multiple women. It's sort of a weird rationalization where he can think of himself as a virtuous person because he's pro-human.

It all reminds me of Professor Weston, the antagonist in the first two parts of C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy. He was willing to sacrifice others (and admittedly, himself) in service of the goal of bringing humanity to other planets. Even in 1938 (publication of Out of the Silent Planet), Lewis anticipated that people like Musk would come along. He tried to expose the hubris of that ideology and type of evil that it would lead to.

Has anyone else been struck by the parallels between the character Weston and our real-life Musk?

https://aeon.co/essays/elon-musk-puts-his-case-for-a-multi-planet-civilisation

#cslewis #outofthesilentplanet #perelandra #multiplanetary #musk #spacex

#MovieNews :
It's #CONFIRMED that #GretaGerwig (Director of #Barbie, #LadyBird, and #LittleWomen) has secured a deal with #Netflix to write and direct two movies based on C.S. Lewis' "The Chronicles of #Narnia."

Furthermore, RUMORS (emphasizing that it is merely rumors) from #LeCinéphiles on the Bird Site, is that #SaoirseRonan is in talks to voice #Aslan. No confirmation on that.

#ComingSoon #ChroniclesOfNarnia #CSLewis

https://www.ign.com/articles/greta-gerwig-write-direct-two-narnia-movies-netflix

Remember how the N.I.C.E. leadership in That Hideous Strength are always in-fighting and then finally destroy one another?

Thinking about that today while reading the news of a #RussiaCoup.

#CSLewis #SpaceTrilogy

"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."

~ #CSLewis

#CSLewis #love #hell

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”

— C.S. Lewis

#cslewis #merechristianity #quote

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
#CSLewis.
#covid #covid19 #longcovid #longcovidkids #COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsntOver #SARSCoV2 @LongCovidHell

#CSLewis on giving to beggars:

"It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been 'had for a sucker' by any number of impostors; but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need."

C.S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy' Stage Production Comes to Museum of the Bible #CSLewis

I would like to see this play 😃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQDIlXnk3k

#Inklings #CSLewis #Tolkien #CharlesWilliams

https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2016/03/aslan-in-1931.html

Is this the first appearance of Aslan in literature? Written by Charles Williams and first published in 1931 here we meet a tremendous lion. My question… was C.S. Lewis influenced by this passage in his invention of Aslan two decades later? At the time it was written, Jack and Charles had not met, nor did they know each others work. I’d be very interested in any comments.

https://www.insider.com/groundhog-day-quebec-fred-la-marmotte-dies-before-making-prediction-2023-2

As of press time the Empress Jadis, terrible Last Queen of Charn, speaker of the Deplorable Word, White Witch, and fell wielder of the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time, was unavailable for comment.
#Narnia #GroundhogDay #CSLewis

By some whim I'm rereading #TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe by #CSLewis and (spoiler alert) we sort of wait until Chapter VII before we hear the first mention of #Aslan.

"They say Aslan is on the move—perhaps has already landed."

That one sentence warms my chest with so many feelings: hope, anticipation, gratitude. Aslan is on the move.

Right now my nation is entering its 7th year of darkness because of the Marcoses and the Dutertes. Perhaps God is on the move here. Perhaps we must always hope.

Mi amigo Helios de Rosario acaba de publicar un libro sobre las perspectivas linguísticas de #JRRTokkien y #CSLewis

No lo he leído todavía, pero conociéndolo, seguro que es muy interesante.

#PalabrasConSentido

https://legendariaediciones.com/product/palabras-con-sentido/

@MikePalumbo @bookstodon I read 'The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe' as a child then I was overjoyed to find out there was an entire series!

I read the rest of the Narnia Chronicles as a teenager and loved them. My Homelife was not very caring / safe and Narnia was a welcome escape.

My favourites were 'The Magicians Nephew' and 'The Horse and His Boy'.

Brilliant, love CS Lewis!

#CSLewis #Narnia #ChroniclesofNarnia #Bookstodon

Saw a great production of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe in #london last night with amazing use of puppetry and great performance by Samantha Womack as the White witch Jadis highly recommend #narnia #CSLewis

Exmas according to #CSLewis #Inklings : https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2006/12/exmas.html

Exmas according to #CSLewis #Inklings https://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2006/12/exmas.html

#Inklings
“Christmas cards in general and the whole vast commercial drive called ‘Xmas’ are one of my pet abominations: I wish they could die away and leave the Christian feast unentangled. Not of course that even secular festivities are, on their own level, an evil: but the laboured and organised jollity of this – the spurious childlikeness – the half-hearted and sometimes rather profane attempts to keep us some superficial connection with the Nativity – are disgusting.” #CSLewis

“The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a foetus inside a woman’s body. If you want to get the hang of it, think how you would like to become a slug or a crab.”
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
#CSLewis #christmas #christianity

One of my scribbles - C.S. Lewis
#CSLewis #art #drawing #scribble