RIP Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You may wonder what this has to do with your work at home business. But Alexander Solzhenitsyn was one of the Russian intellectuals who exposed the internal bankruptcy of Communism… for Gen Y’s Communism is that political thingee that’s greatest exploit to date is enslaving and killing more people than any other political movement in human history. They’re not so friendly to work at home businesses either - or freedom in general but our politicians like to flirt with their notions when they think we have our backs turned which is most of the time.

But if you ever find yourself complaining, here is a man who is thankful for his time in a Soviet concentration camp. Thought provoking…

It was granted to me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience: how a human being becomes evil and how good. In the intoxication of youthful successes I had felt myself to be infallible, and I was therefore cruel. In the surfeit of power I was a murderer and an oppressor. In my most evil moments I was convinced that I was doing good, and I was well supplied with systematic arguments. It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts…. That is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me: “Bless you, prison!” I…have served enough time there. I nourished my soul there, and I say without hesitation: “Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!” (The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, Vol. 2, 615-617)

Another obituary at the BBC