The text version transcribed directly from audio BBC Radio Talk: “Beyond Personality — Mere Men”

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong. Take the common expression: “cold as charity.” How’d we come to say that? From experience. We’ve learned how unsympathetic and patronizing and conceited charitable people often are. And yet hundreds and thousands of them started out really anxious to do good, and when they’d done it, somehow it just wasn’t as good as it ought to have been.
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I don’t mean of course that we’re to stop trying to be good. We’ve got to do the best we can. If the soul’s just fool enough to go into battle with a dirty rifle he mustn’t run away. But I do mean that the real cure lies far deeper. Out of our self and into Christ we must go.
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Well, it’s rather like that with Christ. When you’ve completely given up your-self to His personality you will then, for the first time in your life, be developing into a real person. He made the whole world. He invented it as an author invents characters in a book, all different men that you and I were intended to be.

Our real selves are, so to speak, all waiting for us in Him. What I call my “self” now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.
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That principle runs all through life from the top to the bottom: Give up yourself and you’ll find your real self. Lose your life and you’ll save it. Submit to death, submit with every fiber of your Being and you’ll find eternal life. Look for Christ and you’ll get Him, and with Him, everything else thrown in. Look for yourself and you’ll get only hatred, loneliness, despair, and ruin.

I just listen the podcast (several times) and I would like to write a few words about it:

It seems that we are now reaping what what has been sown more than fifty years ago by our education system. Under the guise of teaching grammar, young students were taught that nothing is objective; there is no objective content to reality, only subjective feelings and attitudes. When this sort of thinking is applied to morality the conclusion becomes “all there is to ethical predicates are merely subjective feelings”.

CS Lweis writes about a faculty, that only human being possess, by which we can intuit the proper response to reality. When this faculty is damaged and eroded, good and bad (evil) are words without content. The education system damages this inner faculty in young people. The end result of it the is the destruction of the society which accepts this ideology.