C. S. Lewis ”The Poison of Subjectivism,” Part2

What Lewis means by subjectivism is "... the fatal superstition that men can create values, that a community can choose its 'ideology' as men choose their clothes."

"Until modern times no thinker of the first rank ever doubted that our judgments of value were rational judgments or that they discovered what was objective."

What is under attack here is the social constructivism that has since Lewis's time become even more pervasive and pernicious, beginning in our educational system but radiating like a cancer throughout our body politic. This doctrine of subjectivism lies at the heart of Wokism, of postmodernism, of post-Hegelian thinking, and its influence reaches into the heart of every institution in our contemporary world, including all sectors of the Church.

The entire program of the broad socialist tradition which is inundating us can be summarized as the "attempt to jettison traditional values as something subjective and to substitute a new scheme of values for them." To this Lewis declares:

"Let us get two propositions written into our minds with indelible ink.

1) The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum.

2) Every attempt to do so  consists in arbitrarily selecting some one maxim of traditional morality, isolating it from the rest, and erecting it into an unum necessarium."

Lewis concludes, "Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish. If we do, we may live."

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