A little over two weeks ago I wrote about “fairness” and how this reasonable concept has morphed into an evil. Not for the first time, I invoked C.S. Lewis’ “The Screwtape Letters” in that piece. That book is, I think, a work of modern prophecy. It sees so clearly into humanity, and most importantly our foibles, that there simply must be some sort of supernatural inspiration involved. The overarching lesson of the book is that evil, real genuine evil, is not a matter of the spectacular, the mass murder or the gang rape, rather it is a matter of perversion wherein the good is altered ever so slightly until it becomes the evil. It is not that rape and murder are good, but that they are relatively easy to control. But perversion, of the type the book considers, is so gradual and so miniscule as to escape detection until it is too late. The perversion can lead to the spectacular evil – like it does for Raskolnikov in “Crime and Punishment” – but often the perverted state is sufficient unto itself to rob the world of good. I look around me and I see the principles of perversion the demon Screwtape teaches so evident.
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