I think it is time to reflect on why the supreme leader takes a stand against lies and corruption.  What motivates and what perspective do we come from. It is a question that has come up again and again from time to time. So I thought I would share my journey and motivation with you.

Speaking for myself I do not think I would have embarked on this project were it not for some very wide reading.  Learning the lessons of history and being concerned about the lack of learning and continuing repetition of some of the worst trends in society is what begun this journey of education, learning and awareness. I have been fortunate enough to be surrounded by well read people who would encourage me to pick up books like ‘Gulag Archepelago’ or ‘Ordinary men’ by Christopher R. Browning and more laterly, books by currently influential authors such as Douglas Murray.

There are people who change the world.  Too often, they are people of violence and those with corrupt ambition and the will to power.  The Hitlers, Mao’s and Pol Pot’s which dominate our bloody history may not be as historic a set of figures as many might believe.  You could easily replace them with the ‘Clintons, ‘Xi Xin Ping’ and Putin’ without needing a great deal of extrapolation.  The leadership of the EU would love to replicate a sort of undemocratic Europe which has more in common with the former Soviet Union than a participatory western democracy.  Look to the decline of democracy and freedom in Canada for a salutary lesson concerning how quickly things can start to go downhill if democracy and freedom are not protected.

These people, both present and historic alike, have one thing in common. They are all masquerading as the people that want the best for us.  They stand for ’the people’.  That is, so long as we choose anything but more freedom and more democracy. Then you can expect to find out, very quickly, how conditional your freedom really is. You will be shut down, cancelled and insulted.  If you are a public figure, lies will be told about you and muck raked.  Innocent and perhaps genuine mistakes spun out of context to a degree that will make your head spin.

Yet the writing of one man stands out today as much as he always has is Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.  The man that can be credited as being both the fuse and the accelerant which inexorably bought down one of the world’s most lunatic experiment in hard left socialism. The most telling thing for me, was how he did it. 

He told the TRUTH.

He told the story of what was actually happening and he would not be swayed from that because he felt he owed it to those who had suffered and died for it. People he had known well.  In a world of lies, the act of telling the truth, is in itself a revolutionary act. One which can ultimately, have dire consequences for the individual and ultimately, also the state.

In the dedication of Gulag Archipelago, he really sets out his own motivation in two sentences. Two sentences which only resonate more and more, the more you learn.

I dedicate this
to all those who did not live to tell it
And may they please forgive me
for not having seen it all
nor remembered it all,
for not having divined all of it.

So with that dedication, he sets himself a task of enormous responsibility. To present the absolute truth of what he had seen and experienced and to show the world, what vast numbers of people had been subjected to as a result of an ideology coming to its ultimate conclusion when unfettered by any sense of balance or accountability.  This then, was what happens when the scales tip too far and socialism leads to its inevitable conclusion in so far as humans can be trusted to implement anything like it.  Those that were motivated to bring it in to being and further its aims, found an extremely useful ideological tool to take away the rights and voice of others.

I came to read the work of Solzhenitsyn far too late in life.   I say this because I cannot for the life of me work out why such an important and foundational book, warning of some of the worst ideas known to man and their inevitable consequences, is not mandatory in every school in the free world.  Indeed, if more people had read and understood it and other similar bodies of work, then we would not be where we are today. Today we have created a new generation which is all too willing to be fooled again and buy in to an already discredited ideology. The experiments for which we have already paid in oceans of blood.

We have already run this experiment. In China. In the Soviet Union and in Cambodia.  How many times is it necessary to go down the same path? The path of lies, of ideology and the denial of basic truths such as that which we encounter today in terms of biology and being invited and later forced to believe the impossible.  

As the saying goes, ‘once you know the truth, you can never go back’. I began my own quest to find the truth.  Starting with the book that is often credited with felling once of the twentieth century’s most evil regimes, ‘Gulag Archipelago’.  From there I was ready to read ‘The Red Wheel’ and many of Solzhenitsyn’s shorter works and writings.  I went back over the Bible, something I had not even seen since I was under ten.  I found foundational truth in that that I never realised before. Then, I begun to realise that western civilisation could not have ever existed were it not for those principles. 

Quickly, I begun to realise what I had to do.  I had to live differently and I have been looking for a set of rules to help me do it.  I found these through Solzhenitsyn and I have been pondering them ever since just to try to be better.

The sad thing is that ‘Truth’ is hard to find in any university campus, or school. Surveys show that the university age generation have never been more open to far left ideology.  University professors champion some of the worst ideas known to mankind and have created a truly disadvantaged generation.  Not disadvantaged because they managed to find and align with one of the pigeonholes of victimhood that society has recently created, but one that comes with an unwillingness to think freely and speak honestly because for many, the cost has become too high. 

Social media has been a fantastic ally for those forces that would have history repeat itself and it has aligned itself with the same set of interests and motivations which continually drive the cycle. But being an effective tool, it is doing so at a far greater rate. People should have been more free to express themselves and to discuss ideas and to learn. The best way to expose bad ideas, is through the disinfectant of sunlight which is open discussion.  Yet, forces in power have conspired to ensure that the opposite is true.  People are locked in a bubble and fed a concentrated diet of what they are supposed to want.  It has all become about normalising the lie.

Thanks to Solzhenitsyn and those like him, I woke up, and started on a quest for truth. Growing up in Europe during the eighties and nineties I have seen many things that seemed impossible dark fantasy, or things which we were told were ‘conspiracy theory’ and that we were would ‘never happen’  come to pass with astounding regularity and at a gathering pace. It gets to the point where you have to be an absolute moron not to so see and feel the temperature rising. 

Despite this, I had always counted on the rubber band whiplashing back and things sorting themselves out.   The problem with that philosophy, is that without people standing up and saying ‘Enough!’.  They don’t and they never did.  It is because some people spoke up.  Because they shared their experiences and said; ‘look over here in the dark, where they do not want you to see’. That is when change occurs.

Just recently, I believe this might be starting to happen in the west today. We have simply been asked to believe too many impossible and cognitively dissonant ideas every day to the degree that no one is buying it anymore.

We have created entire industries within our society that base their entire existence on twisting the narrative, obfuscating the truth, and trying to control the mind, freedoms, and desires of ordinary people. The motivation behind it is ‘just keep them focused on the meaningless and shallow’ and we can just manage the message and never worry too much about any results.  Tell them they are happy enough, and they won’t really question it as long as we turn the heat up ever so slowly and divide them in every way possible. Just as long as they are not looking too critically at us.

The leader of the free world is incriminated with hard evidence on an abandoned laptop. Just tell them it never happened.  So what if we are stripping away their fundamental freedoms under false pretences! Tell them it is for their own good.  What if anyone speaks out? Paint them as the enemy.  It is all beyond even Orwell’s comprehension.

If Solzhenitsyn’s legacy taught me one thing, it is that effective action is not dependant on violence and that ordinary people have tremendous power.  Indeed, Solzhenitsyn pointed out quite conclusively that rule by violence must necessarily be based upon lies.  The sad fact is that for the lies to work, we have to buy in to them.

Enormous swathes of the media and political establishment bring vast resources to bear on ordinary people for that very reason.  They cannot have the peasants starting to think too much or they might not work for them.  They believe, that ‘if we tell them we are all about equality, and tell them we care about the disadvantaged and pick a useful idiot to align with, then they won’t think too deeply about it.

Sadly, for too long the alliance of traditional legacy media, social media, political and corporate interests has been incredibly effective. How many times a day do we hear ‘discrimination’, ‘racism’, ‘disadvantaged’, ‘trans rights’ and ‘victim’. But the real message, is that of victimhood. The constant underlying message which really limits ordinary people is that you are a victim and need help. That you cannot function or achieve anything on your own and need help.  I do not believe people are too stupid to help themselves. Nor that any particular section of society is inherently unable to achieve great things. But if we carry on down this path of segregation and division, that will be all too true.

People that understood the dangers of unchecked ideology, giving up freedom for the illusion of security, the lure of propaganda, and how lies manifest themselves in inevitable terrible outcomes both at the micro scale of our own lives, and the macro level of state and country such as Solzhenitsyn have been warning us for over a century.  Yet, I do not see the direction of travel going towards MORE freedom or MORE democracy despite those stark lessons from history and frankly, it’s just not good enough. What is wrong with us?

Instead, what we see are more effective tools being bought to bear by the same liars that call all information questioning their statements ‘misinformation’ or ‘propoganda’.  However, it is almost always, the same people making those claims which are almost always the most immoral and prolific creators and beneficiaries of both.

There is work by Solzenitsyn himself which is a set of rules to live by which helps you begin this journey.  I keep it on my wall next to me every day, AND I READ IT and think about it a great deal.  It is very easy to get drawn into being part of the problem. To let innate biases influence your thinking. The trick is to enter every conversation hoping to learn something.  To approach life as an opportunity not to teach your particular brand of thinking, but to listen and wonder, during every engagement.  You have to wonder could be wrong. Is there something I missing? What can I take away from this that does not just vindicate what I already thought I knew. 

Let me quote that great man myself and let him say it as it was meant to be said.

Our way must be: Never knowingly support lies! Having understood where the lies begin (and many see this line differently)—step back from that gangrenous edge! Let us not glue back the flaking scales of the Ideology, not gather back its crumbling bones, nor patch together its decomposing garb, and we will be amazed how swiftly and helplessly the lies will fall away, and that which is destined to be naked will be exposed as such to the world.

And thus, overcoming our temerity, let each man choose: Will he remain a witting servant of the lies (needless to say, not due to natural predisposition, but in order to provide a living for the family, to rear the children in the spirit of lies!), or has the time come for him to stand straight as an honest man, worthy of the respect of his children and contemporaries? And from that day onward he:

• Will not write, sign, nor publish in any way, a single line distorting, so far as he can see, the truth;
• Will not utter such a line in private or in public conversation, nor read it from a crib sheet, nor speak it in the role of educator, canvasser, teacher, actor;
• Will not in painting, sculpture, photograph, technology, or music depict, support, or broadcast a single false thought, a single distortion of the truth as he discerns it;
• Will not cite in writing or in speech a single “guiding” quote for gratification, insurance, for his success at work, unless he fully shares the cited thought and believes that it fits the context precisely;
• Will not be forced to a demonstration or a rally if it runs counter to his desire and his will; will not take up and raise a banner or slogan in which he does not fully believe;
• Will not raise a hand in vote for a proposal which he does not sincerely support; will not vote openly or in secret ballot for a candidate whom he deems dubious or unworthy;
• Will not be impelled to a meeting where a forced and distorted discussion is expected to take place;
• Will at once walk out from a session, meeting, lecture, play, or film as soon as he hears the speaker utter a lie, ideological drivel, or shameless propaganda;
• Will not subscribe to, nor buy in retail, a newspaper or journal that distorts or hides the underlying facts.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of the possible and necessary ways of evading lies. But he who begins to cleanse himself will, with a cleansed eye, easily discern yet other opportunities.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

For more about the life and work of Alexandr Solzenitsyn, you can look up more at: www.solzhenitsyncenter.org

So that is why this blog exists. That is why we need a ‘supremeleader.eu and others like this fighting against the corrupt. Because big change does not happen by accident and if you do not participate, people will take advantage.