[Bret L]

An Individual Point of View

Posted by Bob on October 9, 2009 at 7:34 am


"One reason I see things clearly is because I see them from what Aleksander Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag Archipelago called “an individual point of view.” Few readers and no intellectuals understood what he meant by this.

Up until his time in the Gulag, Solzhenitsyn adhered to the
established religion of his country, Marxism-Leninism. He thought
Stalin was a thug and said so, which is what got him into the Gulag.
But he considered Lenin the greatest man in history and it was his
life’s work to write the definitive biography of that Saint.

What Solzhenitsyn meant by an “individual point of view” was what he
later became: a Russian, not a Marxist. He saw himself as an
individual with a, repeat A, meaning ONE, personal point of view: “an
individual point of view.” Only then was he able to observe THE REST
of the world accurately.

If you are part of the established religion, regardless of what that
institution may be, you are not a part of the world or the people you
are analyzing. You look down on others in the light of your own Final
Truth.

Everybody is a provincial, but you cannot understand anything about
real people unless you face the fact that you are a hick, too. The
people who cannot understand reality at all are those who THINK the
INSTITUTION they are part of does not have a “point of view.”

Those who have an institutional view analyze everything as a step up
or down toward their Final Truth. They are the most extreme form of
provincial. They possess a hickdom no real hick could even imagine.

And, unlike a normal hick, the institutional hick cannot imagine that
he IS a provincial."

http://www.whitakeronline.org/blog/2...point-of-view/