Refusing To Accept “The Lie”

What Russian author / Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn seems to be implying here is that, in every society, there is tension between “the lie” that government is spreading and those who refuse to accept it.

In the present-day U.S., the lie might be that our authoritarian ways provide us the path towards a better life.

Banning controversial books, removing women’s rights, pumping guns into society, suppressing progressive voters, convincing us that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, promoting the consumption of fossil fuels, supporting white nationalism, and destroying public education–none of these things will bring about a higher quality of life for the common American.