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156: How NOT to Lead. Fall in Line or Face The Supreme Measure. Monitor Your Hope. "The Gulag Archipelago", by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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πŸ—“οΈ 19 December 2018

⏱️ 118 minutes

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0:00:00 – Opening: The Gulag Achipelago-Aleksandr Soltzhenitsyn (Unabridged) Get Your Copies> https://amzn.to/2EDF7r3

1:33:58 – Support: How to stay on THE PATH.

1:22:55 – Final thoughts and take-aways.

1:56:11 – Closing Gratitude.

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0:00.0

This is Jockel Podcast number 156 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

0:07.0

Good evening, echo. Good evening. Resistance. Why didn't you resist?

0:15.0

Today, those who have continued to live on in comfort, scold those who suffered.

0:22.0

Yes, resistance should have begun right there at the moment of the arrest itself, but it did not begin.

0:32.0

During a daylight arrest, there is always that brief and unique moment when they are leading you,

0:38.0

either inconspicuously on the basis of a cowardly deliou of made, or else quite openly,

0:44.0

their pistols unholstered through a crowd of hundreds of just such doomed innocence as yourself.

0:50.0

You aren't gagged. You really can and you really ought to cry out.

0:56.0

To cry out, you are being arrested.

0:59.0

That villains in disguise are trapping people that are arrests are being made on the strength of false denunciations.

1:07.0

That millions are being subjected to silent reprisals.

1:11.0

If many such outcries had been heard all over the city in the course of a day,

1:15.0

would not our fellow citizens perhaps have begun to bristle?

1:20.0

And would arrests perhaps no longer have been so easy?

1:28.0

Instead, not one sound comes from your parched lips.

1:35.0

And that passing crowd naively believes that you and your executioners are friends out for a stroll.

1:44.0

I myself often had the chance to cry out.

1:53.0

So why did I keep silent?

1:57.0

Why, in my last minute out in the open, did I not attempt to enlighten the hood-winked crowd?

2:05.0

Why did I keep silent?

2:07.0

Every man always has a dozen glib little reasons why he is right, not to sacrifice himself.

2:16.0

Some still have hopes of a favorable outcome to their case and are afraid to ruin their chances by outcry.

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