Solzhenitsyn's Exhortations | Episode V
New Humanists
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The Single Most Controversial Line of Critique Is This Attack on Basically Secular Society
He blames renaissance humanism, but he also blames the middle ages. He says that the middle ages improperly elevated the spiritual and denegrated the physical and material. And so then in the reaction against kind of mediaeval over spiritualization, you may call gnosticism a in the humanist renaissance, reaction against that god was forgotten. I tend to think it's a little tententious. So in this is not great in some ways. But at least my people are not totally secularit because they're suffering and being forged into something. Whereas you americans are living in an equally materialist, secular society, but you're diluded and comfortable. You're being fattened for
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