Still Holds True after 35 Years

Just as mankind once became aware of the intolerable and mistaken deviation of the late Middle Ages, so too must we take account of the disastrous deviation of the late Enlightenment. We have become hopelessly enmeshed in our slavish worship of all that is pleasant, all that is comfortable, all that is material--we worship things, we worship products. Will we ever succeed in shaking off this burden, in giving free reign to the spirit that was breathed into us at birth, that spirit which distinguishes us from the animal world?- Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Warning to the West. (145-146)