Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the prolific Russian writer, believed in justice. He also believed that human beings were, in their basic nature, good, but that social circumstances could distort them, ruin them. And, that governments had much to do with this distortion. I recently came across one of his quotes that so reflects what I believe we are experiencing in today’s socio-economic political climate, whether it be right, left or centric. This blog post is a continuation of my prior one called “Safety”…

“We know that they are lying,

they know that they are lying,

they even know that we know they are lying,

we also know that they know we know they are lying too,

they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying.

In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn