The Michael Berry show truth is timeless and that is so true when you read the words throughout history

The great thoughts and ideas and positions and policies and beliefs.

You can replace the horse with the car.

You can replace the location. you can replace the time, you can replace the cultural references,

and maybe even you have to translate it into a language we understand. But truth is eternal.

Alexander Salzanitsin in 1978 delivered the commencement address at Harvard. It was titled a world split apart.

Now this is two years into Jimmy Carter's presidency. America was in a similar

position to what it is today.

There were real problems in the world.

And we had a terrible president in Jimmy Carter.

But this speech transcends even the immediate moment.

Inflation was out of control at the time.

We'd had the energy crisis.

We were under attack because of Carter's weakness.

Of course, we would end up with hostages in Iran.

But this speech is a powerful critique of Western materialism and the decline of spiritual values.

I love capitalism. I love the freedom to earn from the sweat of your brow or the brilliance of your mind and

I love the ability to purchase things, own things, possess things, use things for our comfort and convenience.

But there is in that, just as I love a glass of wine, but there can come a point where it destroys you.

I love delicious food, but there can come a point where it destroys you.

Sexual urges. sexual urges, sloth, most anything in a level of excess of your own defining and

understanding can bring you down, something that starts good can end badly.

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