Posted on 11/01/2021 4:42:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 indictment of America’s moral and cultural problems was prophetic and rings even truer today.
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. (1918-2008)
For even the most devoted Wokesters in America today—whether true believers or camp followers—all know America is in a realm beyond words. It resembles the type of heightened exhilaration before one hits the ground in the instant agony of sure death. A Thelma and Louise moment.
At such a time, and before our nation hits the ground, we may want to re-visit a complicated writer, loyal Russian, and American visitor for almost twenty years—Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
This is a man who loved his country but not his country’s tyranny. This is a man who embraced socialism and communism with his great mind and then turned on those ideologies once he saw them in practice. Stalin had him arrested and sent to labor camps in 1945. The Soviet Union exiled him for his writing and publishing, and he eventually ended up in Montpelier, Vermont. Solzhenitsyn was a complex, perhaps tortured soul. He tried his best to explain how both Russian and America got it wrong.
And so, what he had to say about American society in a 1978 commencement speech at Harvard University is worth noting.
Solzhenitsyn gave the country a good dressing down. America lacks civic courage. America’s foreign policy reflects weakness, cowardice, and a lack of manliness. Americans have become materialistic, irreligious, place man at the center of the universe, and have the hubris to think that the Western social construct should be exported worldwide.
Solzhenitsyn considered the American mass media to be nothing but a superficial purveyor of misinformation under the guise of “freedom of the press.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A very worthwhile read. Thanks for posting. Solzhenitsyn was definitely a smart man. One wonders if his incarceration was in largely responsible for his intelligence, or would he have been just as intelligent without the incarceration. I tend to think his incarceration was a major factor. 🙂
I don’t know, but his incarceration certainly gave him things to write about!
America is a people with an idea.
That's why they focus (and HAVE been since at least the 60's), on the government indoctrination centers.
America will die when people quit thinking and believing ..... and I don't see that happening.
We actually have the demokrat party to tHank for this enlightenment, who were triggered by A righteous man with 200 year old ideas ... THAT HE ENACTED AND PUT IN PLACE.
“Has America Become ‘A Realm Beyond Words’?”
Must not be since this guy is writing about it.
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