Friday, March 23, 2018

Forty Years Later... Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard University Address

Is the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe our true hope? Almost forty years ago, a great man noted what courage meant in the twilight days of western civilization:


"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. 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. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life. 
Political and intellectual functionaries exhibit this depression, passivity, and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in their self-serving rationales as to how realistic, reasonable, and intellectually and even morally justified it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And the decline in courage, at times attaining what could be termed a lack of manhood, is ironically emphasized by occasional outbursts and inflexibility on the part of those same functionaries when dealing with weak governments and with countries that lack support, or with doomed currents which clearly cannot offer resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and international terrorists. 
Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?" -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978
As western civilization surrenders in Western Europe and the United States, does the courage necessary to survive exist in former Communist nations? 


29 comments:

Brute said...

Good find! The handwriting is indeed on the wall.

PB said...

As any resistance movement has historically shown, courage begins when people realize they are not alone. We know we aren't alone, but we still communicate in places like this through the safety of anonymity and caricature handles. We are not alone, yet we are still separate and isolated.

Anonymous said...

The negroid goodification the other night is where this all leads...to White men with guns enforcing their level of Civilization on the brown and black hordes. There is no way out except through...

Watch the video, my dusky fat-lipped brethren...this is what your future holds in store for you...the smart move is self-reunification with the Motherland - Africa. It awaits you and your fellow Wakandans. Go make it magical and vibrant.

Blaxit!

Video here my bruthas...

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-stephon-clark-shooting-sacramento-explainer-20180323-story.html

Anonymous said...

Our elites have sold us out to (((oriental merchants)))

They have become passive and degenerate. Their minds rotted by wealth, pornography, sexual deviancy and drugs that their dirty shekels allow them access to.

We need to expiate the very memory of the blot of their corrupt existence from our minds and even our soil.

Anonymous said...

He couldn’t get away with those words today. As it applies to negroes in America today, I’d add to his list of symptoms of cowardice: corruption, feral violence, lack of concern for human life, it goes on...

Anonymous said...

The dominant parties of Western society have disengaged from reality and that is the main source of weakness.

It used to be the responsibility of the intellectual to face reality and do what is best for the nation. However that changed as the Western parties embraced reality-rejecting forms of idealism.

First came Marxism that outright rejected free speech. Detractors or skeptics were "counter-revolutionaries" that were holding back the great utopia. This tradition still exists with the left as they use political correctness to silence their critics.

Then conservatism disconnected from reality by rejecting race in favor of "feel-good" globalist philosophies. That didn't leave anyone to seriously challenge the left since the deepest flaws of Marxism and liberalism are in blank slate assumptions.

I don't know the answer but I do know that the left is aware that it can't seriously debate its positions. Just look at the current gun debate. If you allow open debate it becomes apparent that "gun crime" correlates far more with race than gun ownership rates. If we had a White party that fully challenged the left on these issues then it would collapse overnight. The "Fox news" style conservatives are mostly entertainers that dance around reality with liberals.

Anonymous said...

The couldn’t get away with those words today. As it applies to negroes in America today, I’d add to his list of symptoms of cowardice: corruption, feral violence, lack of concern for human life, it goes on...

It's the cowardice of White leaders that is the main problem.

Liberals can't even see how much their own programs work against Blacks. If you truly supported Blacks then you would re-think welfare so it wasn't dysgenic and favored creating a middle class. You would also take a hard look at any possible deficiencies before simply declaring that total equal outcomes should exist. I've seen a documentary where Black kids were crying their eyes out over having to take a NCLB test because they knew the results would make their whole school look bad. Moron liberals and conservatives don't see how you can work against a group by not taking their differences into account.

Antidote said...

I remember Solzhenitsyn's Harvard speech. At that time I had little political understanding---so I regarded him as an insulter and an ingrate. Today I understand everything and I'm trying to locate '200 Years Together, the crucifixion of Russia'.
As far as White Consciousness, White Unity, courage, patriotism, and resistance in the context of the USA, yesterday the knockout blow may have been delivered: Trump's base are the irredeemable, deplorable mainly small town and rural Whites of Flyover country who cling to their bibles and rifles. These are the vilified and marginalised Whites who don't want to be displaced, want a Great Wall of security and defense, an end to Neocon Wars and the restoration of American industry---among other things.
When he signed the Omnibus Bill he lost his base; had he shut down the shitshow gubmint they would have been with him 100%. But they will never go to a rally again. Their feeling of abandonment is so profound that they will stay home on Election Day. Forget about November, he's a lame duck right now. The Democrats will take the House and perhaps the Senate. Any Democrat can win in 2020---even Hillary=curtains for the White Race in America

Ken said...

OT - I just got a fundraising from Trump. I'm sending this letter in the Business Reply envelope: why was this POS "Spending Bill" signed? The GOP promised us an end to wasteful spending; Trump also promised us he would drain the swamp. This monstrosity does neither. Shame on Trump and the GOP " leadership". I'm glad $500 million was appropriated for a border wall. But, wait a minute, this wall will be constructed in Jordan. This isn't funny. No more support to the lyin GOP and Trump. We need a new political party that will actually represent ordinary people and not the swamp.

Anonymous said...

Family members said Thomas has been hit hard by the deaths of his two children, who were allegedly drowned in a home bathtub by their mother, Sheborah Thomas in 2016, when they were 5 and 7 years old. She is awaiting trial for capital murder, the Chronicle reported.

Tensions flared at a nearby gas station where media and members of the public gathered, including apparent witnesses who said Thomas appeared compliant. Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez met the crowd face to face after the incident.

“But he threw his hands up,” a woman asked, in a moment captured by CBS affiliate KHOU. “But what if he threw his hands up?”

Gonzalez rebuffed the assertion. “We don’t know that. That’s why we’re out here to investigate. We’ll get to the bottom of it,” Gonzalez told the crowd of mostly black citizens.

Thursday’s killing occurred in the jurisdiction of the Houston Police Department, which will take the lead in the investigation. The sheriff’s office and Harris County District Attorney will also conduct probes.

Authorities released a brief summary of the incident on Friday.

“According to witnesses, Thomas was walking in the middle of the intersection of Imperial Valley and Greens Rd. with his pants around his ankles, talking to himself and hitting vehicles as they passed by,” the Houston Police Department said in a statement. Thomas struck a white vehicle, and a physical altercation ensued. A passing deputy stopped to disrupt the disturbance, the police said.


“The deputy gave Thomas verbal commands to stop, which he ignored and continued to advance toward the deputy. Fearing for his safety, the deputy discharged his duty weapon, striking Thomas once in the chest,” the department stated.

“Obviously they’re someone’s loved one. These situations are always difficult and so the main thing we can do is to make sure that we get the facts and that we’re thorough and transparent,” Gonzalez told reporters at the scene Thursday.
The shooting serves as a “a reminder of how things could escalate in these situations,” Gonzalez added. “Our deputies work in a very difficult environment where they have to make split-second decisions to protect their lives as well.”
Houston officer Kim Jones at the department’s crime center told The Washington Post on Saturday there was no information on whether the deputy was carrying a Taser or other less-than-lethal weapons. The sheriff’s office did not immediately answer an inquiry requesting information on the typical configuration of less-than-lethal weapons for deputies on patrol.


The Houston killing occurred just days after two Sacramento police officers shot and killed Stephon Clark in his own backyard after a foot pursuit on Sunday night. The police believed Clark raised a gun at them. Only a white iPhone was found near his body. He died at the scene after the officers shot 20 rounds at him.

That incident sparked waves of protests in the following days, with chants of “Phones up, don’t shoot” — a reference to the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. He was also unarmed when he was killed by police.

An analysis by The Washington Post found that 987 people were killed by police last year — 68 of them unarmed. Of those unarmed victims, 30 were white, 20 were black and 13 were Hispanic, showing an overrepresentation of African Americans compared to their percentage of the U.S. population. Five of the remaining fatalities were of unknown or other race.

At least 230 people have been killed by police this year, according to The Post’s database on fatal force.

CENTURION said...

I have a Theory why TRUMP signed that abomination of a "budget". He is smarter than we are.

What's coming up that is going to be BIG TIME? Let's imagine that he didn't sign it. There would be this non stop media vomit about "shutting down the government" and there would be HATE speech about TRUMP. So what? They hate him anyway. But this stink would drown out what's coming.

BUT supposed he wanted this topic off the table so the media-communists-enemies-liberals couldn't use it to drown out and bury what is coming. What is coming?

Indictments of the Clintons.
Indictments of Comey
Indictments of Obama
Indictments of all the top officials in the Obama administrations. Reno, the negro head of DOJ, etc.

There are huge amount of rumors, flying right now, about the Inspector General's report, and on "secret" Grand Jury investigations, and numerous Department of Justice Prosecutors who have been on this for months, interviewing "witnesses". Perhaps an explosion of very serious charges are coming and TRUMP wants a very boring news week for them to hit.

Full Metal Jacket time.

Also, North Korea is coming up. Very soon. I can imagine TRUMP is going along to be polite and to hand-job the short little yellow snot. Let him feel important. Friends of mine, and friends of friends of mine, who have "kids" overseas in Korea, Okinawa, etc. are on Base. No leave. They are waiting. I can see TRUMP listening to that dwarf jaundiced turd, and then saying, as only TRUMP can do:...."You agree to my demands or the cruise missiles begin before you can stand up. Understand me you yellow running dog (big insult in AsianSpeak)?"

Money is only paper and money has no value. Immigration, North Korea, getting Obama the Sambo, putting the Democrats and Media to sleep, just may be the strategy in play since THEY ARE IMPORTANT.

A Budget, in an age of digital "currency" really doesn't mean anything. As bad as our finances would be (if we based our money on real money, like GOLD), we are better off than ANY OTHER COUNTRY and wilth paper/digital/imaginary currency as "money", it makes no difference since there is no account due. Just click more ZEROS on the key board, thank you Federal Reserve Corporation.

Thus, I think something really big is coming.

Paintjob Theory said...

"Today I understand everything and I'm trying to locate '200 Years Together, the crucifixion of Russia'."

I have a pdf of that at home. I'll see about dropping it into a share site and posting the link tomorrow when I'm home. I'll also post some comments on this story.

Sam said...

To Antidote,
Below is a link to what is supposed to be the full text of "200 Years Together". I have not read it yet, but grabbed it when I saw it, and now do not remember where I found it. Hope this helps you in your search.

https://archive.org/stream/Solzhenitsyn200YearsTogether/Solzhenitsyn-200%20Years%20Together_djvu.txt

Anonymous said...

For all the courage these men showed, today's world will relegate them to the garbage bin.

Anonymous said...

Don't know about courage but I surely lost hope after Lame Donnie signed his own death warrant yesterday. I think about moving somewhere to escape the agenda but the world is almost bereft of such places.

Anonymous said...

I tuned into National Propaganda Radio for a few minutes today to listen to them fawn over the teens marching against Second Amendment rights. A quick quip really stuck with me when one of the hosts mentioned that the opposition is mostly made up of white males. As others here have said, white males are the only minority that can be vilified nowadays. The fact that "gun crime" is an overwhelmingly black male problem can never be mentioned. They even briefly touched on the endemic violence in cities like Detroit and Chicago, but of course they glossed over who is responsible, because these occasional school shootings have far more impact on the public consciousness. It also helps to maintain the illusion that white males are the problem because they are over represented in school shootings. The fact that the vast majority of white male gun owners are law abiding, while the vast majority of "gun crime" is perpetrated by blacks who are either felons illegally in possession, or the guns they use are stolen (or both) is the truth that must not be spoken. I guess that NPR and most commercial media are now our version of "The Ministry of Truth."

Mr. Rational said...

When he signed the Omnibus Bill he lost his base;

Don't swallow that black pill just yet.  First thing, this is only a 6-month bill.  It runs from now until September, maybe 6 weeks before the November elections.  Those Dims who insist that CACA criminals come ahead of American citizens are going to take a much bigger PR hit when they do it at the height of their re-election campaigns than today.

But the real biggie is $80 billion for the defense department.  Guess what's part of the DoD?  The Army Corps of Engineers, that's what.  $80 billion is more than enough to build the wall right there.  The paltry $1.6 B put in and restricted to improvements in the existing barriers was a red herring, a radar decoy; the $80 billion is the stealthed cruise missile to blow all of that up.

Trump said words to the effect of nobody read the bill.  So guess what it looks like he did?  His confederates sneaked his program through in bits that were not read by anyone with the brainpower to understand them, maybe not even the reps and staffers who threw them in.  But they're there.

The next 6 months are going to be Jeff Sessions un-sealing indictments against biggies in the Deep State and the Dims.  There might not be a Democratic National Committee by election day.

Anonymous said...

Consider the white farmers whose ancestors built the country of south africa from empty land. Surely some of them were liberals and groveled shamelessly, but do you think that improved their plight?

D-FENS said...

“Don't know about courage but I surely lost hope after Lame Donnie signed his own death warrant yesterday.“

Don’t worship the guy but take advantage of the little extra time he provides with the bones he throws to us. For someone with supposed business management acumen, he sure seems to have a knack for picking people that end up sabotaging him. Maybe the idea is to lull us to sleep or divert us into futile battles while waiting out the demographic clock.

Trump’s past and present is heavily intertwined with (((them))). Even if he is genuine, this will be his undoing. McCarthy was done in not by his anti-communism but by the hearings on whether his office acted improperly to pressure the army to give preferential treatment to one of his aides (((David Scheine))) who had been drafted. McCarthy’s right hand man (((Roy Cohn)) was the source of this pressure. Cohn was recommended to McCarthy to avoid charges of anti-semitism given all the (((communists))) that had been named by McCarthy and others.

Look at the problems (((Ivanka, Jared, Steve Mnuchin, Gary Cohn and others))) have caused.

It is interesting to note that Trump closely associated with Roy Cohn in the 1980s.

What happened to Pat and (the former) Ms. Greenbaum?

Anonymous said...

I just looked at bunch of photos of the anti-gun weirdos. I noticed that half of the protestors were Blacks and Mexicans. Of the White protestors the majority were women and lesbians. I am just going by what I saw in the photos. Why would Blacks and Mexicans want to take away peoples guns.

Remember....these leftist protestors are also against free speech. The cost of these rallies must cost a fortune. Where do you think the money is coming from.

During the phony cold war the people living in the Russian block countries like Poland, Hungry and East Germany became snitches on their neighbors. One out of three were informants for the governments. Now take a good look at the hate filled faces you see at these anti-freedom protest. Tell me if you think they would not sell out their neighbors to pay off some student loan or other debt.

I think the time has come where you should be very careful about who you talk to and what you talk about. I have been betrayed many times by people who I thought were my friends. These days I trust very few people.

The country is changing and freedom loving white people are the enemy.

Unknown said...

The USA has become openly hostile to White people...and that is NOT going to change.

White parents have to face the reality of our plight, there is NO future for our White children in most "traditional" employment ie; Government and large / medium-sized corporations. White males are the last to be hired unless they have an Ivy League degree and "connections". Medical degrees (RN, NP, PA, MD, DO) will still be in demand but, salaries will be modest, although their heath care will be good. Other than those degrees "the trades" will be our future; any type of mechanical repair, electrical, plumbing, general construction, being their own boss and working "off the books" as much as possible. This will allow them to reside far away from diversity while being able to support themselves and a family. Time for red-pilled parents to grasp the futility of a college education for their children.

Anonymous said...

Re Antidote
200 Years Togetther can be downloaded via Internet Archive.
Also, please note that Putin is very much aware of the racial aspect of Solzhenitsyn's work. Putin's ultimate loyalties ( whether to race, religion, nation or party ) is , for me, a mystery. I know he is KGB, in fact there are photos of him circulating in disguise in the immediate vicinity of Ronald Reagan when Reagan visited Russia. Whether he is Intel today is unknowable. He may have come to an epiphany regarding Russian Christianity. He might still be acting, in disguise, and the Orthodox hierarchy he apparently reveres might themselves be KGB, as they were in Stalinist times.
The sheer quantity of terror, degradation, and deprivation suffered by the Russian ( and Ukrainian ) people during the twentieth century mitigates against optimism about their fate. We in America, with possible exception of the experience of Reconstruction - era -through -Great Depression poor whites, are unable to appreciate their suffering. Therefore I think most analyses of them by us are likely wrongheaded. The most wrong of all are the Russian Jews who populate Ivy League campuses. Max Boot comes to mind.

Paintjob Theory said...

http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=00404424854338742933

PDF of "200 Years Together" for the fellow who asked.

Anonymous said...

I just looked at bunch of photos of the anti-gun weirdos. I noticed that half of the protestors were Blacks and Mexicans. Of the White protestors the majority were women and lesbians.

It shows that they are having a hard time with White males which is good news. A lot of those dykes look like young White females in their feminist stage. A lot of them go through that stage before facing the truth. The older women are the same leftist boomers and dykes that show up to any rally. The liberal pet husbands that follow them around have probably figured it out by now but don't have the balls to say anything.

I am just going by what I saw in the photos. Why would Blacks and Mexicans want to take away peoples guns.

They are mostly women that are sick of shots ringing out and streets gone wrong. I would guess a lot of the younger males like the media attention and are getting extra credit.

The media may be giddy but this is just another emotional leftist protest and devoid of any real plan. If liberals were paying attention they would notice that a lot of Democrats have actually backed off on the gun debate. This is because they get their asses handed to them when they go into the debate assuming the left has honestly studied the issue. Most "gun crime" is Blacks shooting each other with handguns in Democrat districts. Democrats end up having to explain why the 2A should be sidestepped and why new restrictions shouldn't focus on the people doing the shooting. Not exactly a strong position to start from.

Anonymous said...

Groids' genetics determine their behaviors and IQ levels. They are proto-Humans. A different species...like wolves are to dogs.

Why do you keep ignoring science, people? Why are you trying to make a square fit into a circle?

Pu them back in Africa and be done with it. You Whites have your utopias to build; stop wasting time.

Anonymous said...

Wise analysis. One of my biggest lessons in life is that most who smile at you and pretend to be your friend will happily sink a knife in your back. This is doubly true with orcs.

Paintjob Theory said...

As to the story here, I'd like to refer anybody who hasn't already to check out the Yuri Bezmenov interview videos on youtube. Demoralization is a major theme in how communists subvert a nation. Understand the end game is wold communist/socialist government. This is based around an ancient mystery religion and system of control, the roots of which can be traced back to ancient Babylon, though some claim it goes back further still. The Babylonian symbolism persists everywhere and we can clearly trace the flow of this secret priesthood. The "secret" was adopted by the Jews and is the heart of their Talmud and the same secret religion carried on in the region with the Roshiniya then later the Assassins from whom the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitalar learned its principals and brought them west to become all modern secret societies. Today these same groups and their predecessors are the driving force behind all wars, revolutions, and all manner of nation wrecking.

The Masonic legend of Hiram Ibiff is an allegory to, among other things, the building of a utopia, the Great Work. The enemies who killed him, the three Juwes (no relation) with wounds to the head the throat, and the chest; the church, the state, and the mob. These are the three enemies of the "progress" to utopia.

Faith in a creator God, higher purpose than base animal needs, and any code of morality is their enemy and has been under relentless attack for centuries. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" is the "Luciferian/Satanic" flavored explanation for secular humanism. We see this philosophy in all flavors of cultural Marxism and subjective morality. It is incredibly insidious and its logical conclusion is that if there is no God but man, then those greatest men (who we elect or are appointed to be our leaders) become our omnipotent gods. From there Bolshevik creationism follows that God (the state) can create the perfect citizen (with enough of dem programs and our money).... see also the allegory of the alchemist turning feces into gold. The other obvious danger about a strong church, in addition to their obvious political power, is that a man with faith fears nothing but not conforming to the morality and code of his faith. Whatever you fear to lose, when someone threatens to take it away you become their slave to preserve it. The man with faith fears nothing, not loss of material wealth, not loss of social acceptance, and not even loss of life or limb (see Arab suicide bombers). One cannot enslave a people who would just as soon blow themselves up to kill you than be enslaved.

.....to be continued

Paintjob Theory said...

Continued:

The state is the enemy of world government communism as well. In the old days it was the monarchy. Monarchs don't take kindly to playing second fiddle, and people loyal to their monarch will never bow to another sovereign. Most of the great wars and revolutions of the past 1000 years were guided by the Mystery Babylon religion (in whatever local flavor) and all with the goal of removing the old monarchs. While many of today's royal bloodlines have joined this group for the promise of a seat at the table, we can undoubtedly say that the monarchy has been completely destroyed. Any modern sentiment of nationalism is for the same reasons problematic to the idea of global governance and is under relentless assault today. Open borders, identity politics are two obvious strategies to undermine this. A more subtle weapon is demoralization (critical theory). 24 hours a day news coverage of injustice, corruption, and rot in the institutions of state. Never any solutions offered or attempted but bombarding the masses with the message "your government is rotten to the core"... the unspoken punchline being "what we will offer you as an alternative can't possibly be any worse, right?"

Some folks whisper about "a list" that patriots and political dissidents are on. Let me assure you, there is one list...the list of the priesthood of this ancient mystery religion, and if you're NOT on it, you're screwed. The danger of "the mob" is that they/we are easily manipulated by passions and as much as we can be used as a tool for revolution against the aforementioned current institutions we could just as easily be turned against any New Order. This is why as Yuri promises the useful idiots and intelligentsia, after they have served their usefulness in the revolution are the first to earn a one way trip to a gulag or are just lined up against a wall and shot. "Education" with the sole purpose of crushing the ability for free thinking and removing any real understanding of history is good insurance for those who wish to rule as is simply replacing more intelligent and free spirited people with those who are more simple minded and amiable to being enslaved; this is done through mass immigration, dysgenic breeding, and miscegenation. Communism/socialism is the best method ever devised to control the mob by making them completely dependent on the state/ruling class for their food, shelter, security, medicine, and other necessities. Police state security theater isn't security it's plantation overseers, "free" food, housing, and medicine isn't freedom, it's dependency. The rations of a slave, hay and a barn for two legged cattle.

Believe what you like of this, but compare this big picture of the long game to world history and current events and watch the pieces fit together perfectly. To the best of my knowledge Trump is NOT a member of any of the usual suspect groups... that said, the president has little power in our system of government and I can't imagine the usual suspects would allow him to get where he is or to do anything to rock the boat if they didn't at least believe they held all the cards.

Also do not be discouraged. The story of the Tower of Babel, the Flood of Atlantis, and similar all illustrate that this Babylonian system is abhorrent to God (and/or nature, as you prefer) and is doomed to fail. The common mantra of the true believer communist/Mystery Babylon/etc. is always "well it didn't work ever in history but that's just because nobody as clever as me was in charge. The concept of secular humanism (there is no God but man/man can become as God through great works) is an ideal breeding ground for hubris. Find faith, lose fear, find some principals for which you are willing to sacrifice EVERYTHING, your fortune, family, freedom and your life, and you will always be free.

CENTURION said...

Paint Job Theory:

Brilliant and Excellent. Thank you.