'Wonder Confronts Certainty' — A Conversation with Professor Gary Saul Morson about the Deep Mysteries of Great Russian Literature
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The Human Propensity to Seize Upon an Idea at the Detriment of Humanity
Just reading Wonder Meets confront certainty again. You know, you become reconvenced to the fact that Lenin and Stalin believed what they were saying. They actually lived it out. There's a famous toast that Stalin once gave for his, you know, his followers to the cogs. People are cogs in the machine. He couldn't pretend it was anything else. That was the Bolshevik way of looking at things. We kill people, but only the minimum that we have to. From Lenin's point of view, that presupposes that human life has a sacred value of its own.
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