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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Lecture, 1970

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  1. Darius
    Apr 27, 2006

    It’s not the age of self-sacrifice, that’s for sure. It’s the age of shrinking the self down to the size of something too small to care about the lives that will come after ours. We can’t go on that way long – as a species, that is.

  2. SquirrleyMojo
    Apr 27, 2006

    wow.

    gut punched

  3. tim
    Apr 27, 2006

    SQ: Solzhenitsyn’s writing has been punching me in the face and then dashing it with freezing cold water; it is a wakeup call to be sure.

    Darius: you’re right–I think “drowning” may be the best word to use as an analogue of our time and tendency. And, like it was for the Apostle Peter, I think a great reason for this mass drowning is the fact that we look to ourselves.

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