The generation of children who grew up reading the Narnia series of books by CS Lewis are now in their late 40s and 50s.
This is my generation, actually, and my tentative anecdotal observation is that there are more of our generation that resisted the pandemic madness and the mass formation psychosis than either the baby boomers or the younger generations; and I wonder if it is because many of CS Lewis’ Narnia books have villains who initially may seem like good people, and situations where the truth is not readily apparent, and where the characters had to exercise discernment?
The White Witch in the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe seems like a helpful character at the beginning, and teaches children to look beyond fine words and appearances, to discern what a person is really saying and doing. The deceptions and manipulations to which the governments subjected us were not dissimilar in many ways to the White Witch’s lies and manipulations of Edmund in that book.
Puddleglum, the Marshwiggle, is the only one not taken in by the false underground world in the Silver Chair:
“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all of those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones... We're just babies making up a game, if you're right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world which licks your real world hollow. That's why I'm going to stand by the play-world. I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia... and that's a small loss if the world's as dull as you say.”
Note: I’ve had a lot of duties to attend to in my other work, as the year begins, but will be returning to writing fact checks soon.
It's an interesting idea, but the LWWD was published 74 years ago. The first generation of kids who read it are the Boomers.