Just that I agree with you. One of the most intense moments of my adult life came upon rereading the "Foreword In The Form Of A Letter To My Children." He really, really thought he had abandoned the winning side and embraced the one destined to lose. Decades of propaganda and deceit had that effect on even someone with his intelligence, determination, and in the end, faith. I reread it shortly after the Soviet Union fell. Incredible.
=== One of the most intense moments of my adult life came upon rereading the "Foreword In The Form Of A Letter To My Children." He really, really thought he had abandoned the winning side and embraced the one destined to lose.
In a way, he had, Bill.
If he were here, he'd tell you the same as I that "they" are winning and more confident now than they've ever been. Back in his day, "they" were still shouting that they weren't strong enough yet but one day they would be. And on that day they would launch the biggest Peace Movement the world had ever seen before they crushed the face of the West with their clenched fist and hung them on the rope their profiteers provided.
That's why it's important to read "Moritur et Ridet", IMHO. I can't think of anything more chilling than the self-satisfied sleepwalker who repeat inanities like "the fall of communism".
You know how cats whack each other in the face preparatory to locking round the head and grinding the other cat's stomach out with their hind claws?
We're yet in that "period of escalting violence", Bill ... they're just slapping us around.
Luckily, we are only in the world, not of the world. We do not fear death so long as we live in Christ.