Ep. 83: Every Human Heart
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
We say "never forget"...but do we really mean it? We deceive ourselves if we think that murderous tyrants like Stalin are uniquely evil in some way that we ourselves could never be. Reading through Volume 1 of the Gulag Archipelago, Spencer Klavan shows how ordinary people can consent to terrible things.
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| 0:00.0 | We've been talking a lot about what justice is, because we've been reading the Republic. |
| 0:07.2 | Today we're going to talk about what justice is not. |
| 0:14.4 | So once again we're going to be getting into some dark stuff on this episode. |
| 0:18.4 | I think it's important to talk about, but it's fair warning that it's going to be pretty heavy. |
| 0:22.4 | And before we leap in, I just wanted to give you something bright to go on at the beginning. |
| 0:26.5 | And that is that it's the Christmas season. It's technically, I guess it's the Advent season. |
| 0:31.6 | Sorry for all of my liturgical snobs out there. This is the Advent season when we celebrate and |
| 0:36.8 | anticipate the birth of Christ. And for the entire lead up to Christmas, all of our merchandise is 20% |
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| 1:11.2 | until Christmas while I'm feeling generous. And then when I morph automatically back into my |
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| 1:22.1 | shop and get 20% off with the code Santa. All right, I told you that these episodes on the Soviet |
| 1:27.9 | Union and the Gulag archipelago would not be pretty. So steal yourself. There's nothing, |
| 1:35.9 | there's no bad language or anything in this episode, but there are going to be descriptions of the |
| 1:41.6 | Gulag, which was the system of forced labor and imprisonment, which came into being in the Soviet |
| 1:48.4 | Union. We talked mostly last week about Lenin, who was the first leader of the Soviet Union and |
| 1:53.9 | the Consolidator of its power over newly revolutionized Russia. We talked about the ways that his |
| 2:00.4 | grand designs and theory ended him up in a place where millions were dying of starvation and |
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