I know that seems blasphemous in our share everything culture. There are certain things that should not be shared. It is mad work to remove hypocrisy by removing the temptation to hypocrisy: the 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness." I do not know that there is anything to be done but to set about the rebuilding as soon as we can. "In trying to extirpate shame we have broken down one of the ramparts of the human spirit, madly exulting in the work as the Trojans exulted when they broke their walls and pulled the Horse into Troy.
"But unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one and even Pagan society has recognised shamelessness as the nadir of the soul. We are told to 'get things out into the open,' not for the sake of self-humiliation, but on the ground that these 'things' are very natural and we need not be ashamed of them. "We have labored to overcome that sense of shrinking, that desire to conceal, which either Nature herself or the tradition of almost all mankind has attached to cowardice, unchastity, falsehood, and envy. But check back later for more on shame, concealment, and the need for humility in our sharing and in our art. I'll let Lewis give his own epic commentary. Here's more from the passage, which comes from The Problem of Pain. To get the real sense of this quote from Lewis, we need some context.
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