A readiness to die is, as Solzhenitsyn notes, rare in a materialist society. But it is a very healthy thing - not just in self-defence, but also as the primary aspect of nobility.Indeed.
A readiness to die is, as Solzhenitsyn notes, rare in a materialist society. But it is a very healthy thing - not just in self-defence, but also as the primary aspect of nobility.Indeed.
Solzhenitsyn seemed to be one of the surprisingly few to see that societies under sway of the famous isms of communism & consumerism & attendant values were both at heart the same truthless materialism. Thus the degraded truth defiling culture of "the west". One could say an readiness to live, & understanding of that life is rare in a technological materialist society, bombarded as such consciousness is by unreality.
ReplyDeleteIn the idiot dichotomies people tend to divide the world into, however, truthlessness is always "over there".