Going Medieval

"Luxury and material splendour in the modern world need be connected with nothin but money and are also, more often than not, very ugly. But what a medieval man saw in royal or feudal courts and imagined as being outstripped in 'faerie' and far outstripped in Heaven, was not so. The architecture, arms, crowns, clothes, horses, and music were nearly all beautiful. They were all symbolical or significant - of sancity, authority, valour, noble lineage or, at the very worst, of power. They were associated, as modern luxury is not, with graciousness and courtesy. They could therefore be ingeniously admired without degredation for the admirer." C.S. Lewis, The Discarded Image

Longaevi

These are strange times we live in, but what would it look like if all were normal? Would everything be so serious? Would the term "fairy" still be an insult? Would cell phones still ring out? Would children still have to sit in heaven, longingly watching the cup pass them by? And if we picture ourselves far down the road in times called normal, would this period's strangeness be traced to its love of science?

Could science - as we usually understand the term - cause the world to be so strangely serious? After all, science is really the study of God's world. Under the banner of science, we name animals, we study the stars, we build buildings, we grow gardens, we take dominion of the world. Further, scientific endeavors have led to heart transplants, nut brown ale, desert farmlands, calculators, wallboard, and indoor plumbing. Sounds Biblical, sounds benefical, but why has it made everything so serious?

Because we have convinced ourselves that science says there are no such things as "Longaevi"... or fairies.