Is Progress Possible By Cs Lewis Analysis

In Is Progress Possible? C.S. Lewis talks about how progress is inevitable, especially when it comes to human affairs. How many people question whether man itself is capable of progress. Progress means moving in a desired direction and many humans do not desire the same things, which brought up the question- is progress possible? He mentions how everything throughout human history can affect our species of how we act today and what happens to us. Especially the advance and increase in science, and the changed relation between Government and subjects. C.S. Lewis begins explaining how in ‘Possible Worlds’, Professor Haldane pictured a future in which man, assuming that Earth would be inhabitable, would migrate to Venus by modifying his physiology and abandoning justice, pity and happiness. Lewis says that Professor Haldane perception was for the survival of mankind. But Lewis questions, in order for the survival of mankind we need to keep being
The Government controls everything to the point where our world is nothing but a Welfare State. Further describes how on one hand we dread certain things and while on the other we perceive to conception of these things. C.S. Lewis challenges whether progress has become the question of how we can submit ourselves to the world without completely losing our privacy and independence. He further advices us not be deceived by the fact that, man should take charge of their own destiny because just like the Government, there will always be a certain power that will take charge of our destiny meaning it will have a certain impact on our life. Then he tells to ask ourselves, why do we think that this time that power should not corrupt as it has done before? Then again progress is inevitable so if power does corrupt once again, we will learn how to overcome it and to not be deceived by