2025-10-15
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one-time inhabitant of the Russian Gulag, also turned his attention to the regime(s) of the West.
"Political and intellectual bureaucrats show depression, passivity and perplexity in their actions and in their statements and even more so in theoretical reflections to explain how realistic, reasonable as well as intellectually and even morally warranted it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice"
Yup, they have lost their way, and so become prey to any modish fad that the unprincipled but ambitious will cause to come their way.
"Everybody operates at the extreme limit of those legal frames. An oil company is legally blameless when it purchases an invention of a new type of energy in order to prevent its use. A food product manufacturer is legally blameless when he poisons his produce to make it last longer: after all, people are free not to buy it"
The corporate loss of conscience now infects many individual citizens, who have been through the indoctrination systems of "education" and now emerge rudderless, many from broken families or the State system of "childcare".
"A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities"
(and that's before we factor in the apparent failings within our systems of law and order, exposed by Martin Geddes)
