Joseph P Farrell – It was C.S. Lewis who made the observation about the “modern” and “scientific” mindset that if one continued to “see through everything,” one ends up “seeing nothing at all,” and that there must needs be, at some point, some opacity if one is to see anything at all.  Were he alive today, he perhaps might have expanded that observation into a corollary: if one continues on a path of prohibitions, erasures, and cancellations in order to not offend someone, one will end in a place where one offends everyone.

Such seems to be the case with this little story out of New Jersey, where a local school board has decided to offend no one and may have ended by offending everyone (our thanks to K.S. and C.A.F. for sharing this story): Continue reading →