alexander solzhenitsyn (NP)

[jd]

oh, and regarding the documentary...  man, I hate all that dramatic
music.  You could make the most potent documentary ever but with that
overly sappy dramatic music it just knocks it down ten notches...
making points by relying on musical soundbytes (or at least appearing
to simply by including them) is really weak.  I think the
anti-Schindler's List faction would have something to say about that.
That said, I love the intro to the program, it's just so darn FUN.

On 6/29/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares
>
> What do you all think of Alexander Solzhenitsyn?  I have only read a
> few pages of The Gulag Archipelago...  and then I was watching the
> documentary from the above link which mainly deals with showing the
> growth of neo-conservatism compared with extremist islamic violence
> that we're faced with currently (I'm not saying it hasn't been around
> for awhile, for the record).  But in the first segment they show a
> clip of Solzhenitsyn that seems to portray him as someone somewhat
> mis-led and with incorrect ideals.  Then again, they seem to portray
> Nixon and Kissinger as honorable men with honorable ideals.  I'm no
> Nixon expert, I could be wrong, but everything that crosses my radar
> seems to indicate the exact opposite, so, as with anything, grain of
> salt.
>
> Interested to hear what you have to say about Solzhenitsyn, however.
> I've heard he's made many exagerations in Gulag Archipelago but many
> seem to think his heart, at least, was in the right place.  What do
> you think?
>
> I think this somewhat falls into the Pynchonian world view, apologies
> if it's not appropriate for the list.
>