You aren’t in 1984 You aren’t in Brave New World You’re in That Hideous Strength Nick Dixon @NJDixon Id Lewis knew about midwits in 1945. G6 Why you fool, it’s the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they re all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don’t need reconditioning: They’re all right already: They’ll believe anything: C.S: Lewis, That Hideous Strength (The Space Trilogy; #3) buys falling
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