In the Abolition of Man, CS Lewis wrote about the “irredeemable urban blockhead.”
“He is usually spiritually impoverished, often stunted in imagination. He is one who has been taught to mindlessly debunk anything that smacks of sentiment or philosophy or moral reasoning. In short, he has learned to be rationalistic without being truly rational.”
And might this little snippet (though unverified) have anything to do with the humanity morphing jib jabs and nanotech towards silicon based life/reality at 14tev goal by CERN in four years time? 