So, what do you guys think of this?

"We are both more and less than the citizens we were before 2012. We have become dissidents. In our own land. We are, however, in good company." 

 

I Am Now a Dissident (and You Should Be, Too!)

 

Subservience to the State or Subservience to Money, or both?

I can tell you that "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich" is an absolutely devastating novel to read on many levels and I think should be read by ever adult to understand the ultimate end state of centralized power without individual liberties and how the human mind is conditioned by that reality.

 

The problem with Solzhenitsyn for most American's is that is hard for us to make a direct connection to his observations and thinking with the life we are living. Like the proverbial frogs in the pot, we don't feel the heat rising until it is tool late.  He is exactly right on so many levels and a wonderful support to those who know the temperature is already rising but difficult to use as a thermometer.

One major difference is that Solzhenitsyn had the opinion of the rest of the world on his side, while the rest of the current world very much approves of what our government is doing.

One major difference is that Solzhenitsyn had the opinion of the rest of the world on his side, while the rest of the current world very much approves of what our government is doing.

 

a very insightful statement.