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1)In “The Gulag Archipelago,” Solzhenitsyn very sternly admonishes the Russian people for silently complying with every demand and edict the government threw at them.
“I could have spoken up at any time, but I remained silent,” he says as he recounts even his unjust arrest.
“I could have spoken up at any time, but I remained silent,” he says as he recounts even his unjust arrest.
2) The point is that their liberties were taken away, squashed, over decades, little by little. Some of the requirements seemed ultimately benign, so the masses reasoned, “Well, it doesn’t hurt to go along.” And so they complied. And complied. And complied. En masse. Until they
3) were crushed.
Have you heard of the term “difference threshold?” It’s the amount something must be changed in order for a difference to be noticeable. When additions in weight, for example, are added slowly and gradually, it is very difficult for an individual deprived of
Have you heard of the term “difference threshold?” It’s the amount something must be changed in order for a difference to be noticeable. When additions in weight, for example, are added slowly and gradually, it is very difficult for an individual deprived of
4) other senses to perceive the additions until the weight is noticeably heavier. But we have all our senses about us. We just have to use them. We can SEE the additions, though the weight of them is sometimes imperceptible. Let us not choose to be blind.
