The one-volume Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005 was compiled by Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney with the cooperation of the Solzhenitsyn family. The truth is that the split is a much profounder and a more alienating one, that the rifts are more than one can see at first glance.
But there is no awareness of this. I refer to the prevailing Western view of the world which was first born during the Renaissance and found its political expression from the period of the Enlightenment. The culprit can go unpunished or obtain undeserved leniency with the support of thousands of public defenders. People in the West have acquired considerable skill in using, interpreting, and manipulating law (though laws tend to be too complicated for an average person to understand without the help of an expert). And all of a sudden the twentieth century brought the clear realization of this society's fragility. This is the real crisis. There is no open violence such as in the East; however, a selection dictated by fashion and the need to match mass standards frequently prevent independent-minded people from giving their contribution to public life. Thus mediocrity triumphs under the guise of democratic restraints.It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and it has in fact been drastically weakened in all Western countries. Society has turned out to have scarce defense against the abyss of human decadence, for example against the misuse of liberty for moral violence against young people, such as motion pictures full of pornography, crime, and horror. Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit.
and this can hardly suit anyone.If I were today addressing an audience in my country, in my examination of the overall pattern of the world's rifts I would have concentrated on the calamities of the East. Yet there is a disaster which is already very much with us. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. Is there no Superior Spirit above him? There is no open violence, as in the East; however, a selection dictated by fashion and the need to accommodate mass standards frequently prevents the most independent-minded persons from contributing to public life and gives rise to dangerous herd instincts that block dangerous herd development.In America, I have received letters from highly intelligent persons — maybe a teacher in a faraway small college who could do much for the renewal and salvation of his country, but the country cannot hear him because the media will not provide him with a forum. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, each of them capable of entirely destroy ing the other. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. A person who works and leads a meaningful life has no need for this excessive and burdening flow of information. Is it true that man is above everything?
Social dogmatism leaves us completely helpless in front of the trials of our times.Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. (Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images) Solzhenitsyn’s reflections on his critics I n the winter of 1978 an invitation to give a commencement speech at Harvard … No; this would damage sales.
All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one could imagine even as late as in the Nineteenth Century.As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation at first by socialism and then by communism. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? How did the West decline from its triumphal march to its present debility? Undoubtedly, however, the number is even greater; we are just too far away to see. But I would not wish such an outcome to any country in the world.
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