# solzhenitsyn harvard address

**URL:** <https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930>\
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**Created:** [August 4, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930 "2008-08-04T22:54:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![PheroQuirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@PheroQuirk](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/PheroQuirk)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/1 "2008-08-04T22:54:51Z")

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[Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard Address](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html)

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**Author:** ![Jasx69](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/jasx69/32/2413_2.png) [@Jasx69](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Jasx69)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/2 "2008-08-05T09:09:55Z")

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Umm whats it about I read the 1st paragraph but it’s way to long ? Power and Socialism ? or where the world is headed theory today ?

“J”

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**Author:** ![Holmes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/holmes/32/2128_2.png) [@Holmes](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Holmes)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/3 "2008-08-05T18:25:20Z")

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Thanks for posting.

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**Author:** ![Phya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@Phya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Phya)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/4 "2008-08-05T20:39:15Z")

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Amazing read, thanks!

It’s fascinating that the speech was given in 1978! I wonder if he’s still alive today and how his feelings on the subject are today. Personally, I feel that his words, for the most part, ring truer today than ever before. But, who am I to say? I’ve only really seen a decade or so of human development. 😛

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**Author:** ![Mtnjim](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/mtnjim/32/2010_2.png) [@Mtnjim](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Mtnjim)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/5 "2008-08-05T22:00:07Z")

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> [@Phya](#):
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> Amazing read, thanks!
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> It’s fascinating that the speech was given in 1978! I wonder if he’s still alive today

He died the day before yesterday, probably the reason for the original post.☹

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**Author:** ![Phya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@Phya](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Phya)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/6 "2008-08-06T02:15:41Z")

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> [@Mtnjim](#):
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> He died the day before yesterday, probably the reason for the original post.☹

Oh…damn. ☹

Well, I wonder what he would have said..or has said.

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**Author:** ![Daedelus76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Daedelus76](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Daedelus76)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/solzhenitsyn-harvard-address/16930/7 "2008-08-06T02:58:32Z")

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So, the essence of his speech seems to be that the Western world faces a lack of spirituality. I don’t disagree with that… my only question would be “what kind of spirituality?” I honestly think spirituality restricted to pre-personal and archetypal ideas is poison, it leads to tribalism and fanaticism. Far from grounding people in a deeper understanding of reality, it seems to seperate people from reality. The suicide bomber might be an example of pre-personal spirituality.

In the interests of brevity, that’s all I’ll say on the matter for now, though 🙂

However, I don’t agree necessarily with his viewpoint on the Vietnam war, at the risk of being political. But perhaps the speech was a product of the times and the person.