All the time i was reading this essay, I was thinking of C.S. Lewis's short lecture, The Inner Ring. It corresponds to the view you laid out about the higher loyalty at the top echelons of spies to their profession. Being at the top of the professional pyramid being more important to certain personality types than patriotism. Thanks Sam for another thought provoking essay.
All the time i was reading this essay, I was thinking of C.S. Lewis's short lecture, The Inner Ring. It corresponds to the view you laid out about the higher loyalty at the top echelons of spies to their profession. Being at the top of the professional pyramid being more important to certain personality types than patriotism. Thanks Sam for another thought provoking essay.
Lewis would have been very familiar with inner rings and how they work socially having been born and raised in Belfast. A bastion of British unionism and their archaic colonial endogamous worldview.
Thanks David! Yes, Macintyre in his book makes The Inner Ring kind of the clinching argument for his case:
"In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the ‘inner ring’, the belief that somewhere, just beyond reach, is an exclusive group holding real power and influence, which a certain sort of Englishman constantly aspires to find and join.”
Btw really enjoyed your essay on seeing your brother in the courtroom. Very moving.
All the time i was reading this essay, I was thinking of C.S. Lewis's short lecture, The Inner Ring. It corresponds to the view you laid out about the higher loyalty at the top echelons of spies to their profession. Being at the top of the professional pyramid being more important to certain personality types than patriotism. Thanks Sam for another thought provoking essay.
https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
Lewis would have been very familiar with inner rings and how they work socially having been born and raised in Belfast. A bastion of British unionism and their archaic colonial endogamous worldview.
Thanks David! Yes, Macintyre in his book makes The Inner Ring kind of the clinching argument for his case:
"In a brilliant lecture written in 1944, C. S. Lewis described the fatal British obsession with the ‘inner ring’, the belief that somewhere, just beyond reach, is an exclusive group holding real power and influence, which a certain sort of Englishman constantly aspires to find and join.”
Btw really enjoyed your essay on seeing your brother in the courtroom. Very moving.