Kyla Scanlon uses The Screwtape Letters to frame convenience, optimization and passivity as mechanisms through which gradual intellectual and social erosion can occur.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 8: THE SHIELD OF SCREWTAPE Three Sleepy Kings

"Kyla Scanlon uses The Screwtape Letters to frame convenience, optimization and passivity as mechanisms through which gradual intellectual and social erosion can occur."

Scanlon uses Screwtape's observation about keeping ideas out of people's minds as the starting point for an argument about ease, comfort, optimization and passivity.

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Source title Economic Lessons from the Screwtape Letters

Source authors Kyla Scanlon

Source year 2025

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