Bored? There's Still Time...
To Read a Classic this Summer
“There's Nothing New Under the Damn Sun”
-Old Testament Bard, paraphrased
They taught us, they warned us, shared their intimate thoughts and observations about life with us, but the Great Men and Women of High Literature and simple pronouns cannot make you lie in a hammock and actually read what they’ve written. That’s on YOU.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the need for guns and an armed citizenry:
Ayn Rand on Freedom:
Dofstoyesky on inclusiveness, overwokeness and idiots:
Pick a classic and READ IT, before Summer’s over and the Light is Gone.
All great picks! I love Heinlein. His quote has been the motivation for me to fix all kinds of things things myself and enjoy/learn from the process many times!
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
I have read that Solzhenitsyn quote many times. Very powerful. But not well understood in the West: it is accurate only for urban populations - they folded. But not so for rural populations. They fought back against the Bolsheviks like fiends! I their case, mostly against the collectivization of agriculture (made them peasants again). Very often with proverbial pitch forks - shovels, farm implements etc. They were eventually subdued - but many Bolshevik operatives were killed doing so.