Words From a Modern Day Prophet,Pt.2

In this excerpt fom his Harvard speech, Solzhenitsyn correctly points out the mindset that has led to the decline of America.It is simply amazing that this speech was given in 1978.Today we see a society that is trying to fix its problems without recognizing what the real cause of the problems are.
"This tilt of freedom toward evil has come about gradually, but it evidently stems from a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which man — the master of the world — does not bear any evil within himself, and all the defects of life are caused by misguided social systems, which must therefore be corrected. Yet strangely enough, though the best social conditions have been achieved in the West, there still remains a great deal of crime; there even is considerably more of it than in the destitute and lawless Soviet society."