Sunday, November 22, 2020

The Gulag Archipelago

 The simple step of a courageous individual is not to partake of the lie.

One word of truth outweighs the world.

                        Alexander Solzhenitsyn


I am almost finished reading The Gulag Archipelago.  It is a wonder that such madness could sieze a society and hold it in thrall for half a century.  I am afraid that much of what Solzhenitsyn describes is creeping into our national unconsciousness.  What do we have if we have a society built on lies?

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