Not Through Me. Not Through Me.
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
We must stand firm, unyielding in our refusal to compromise on what we know is right.
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| 1:08.0 | Not through me, not through me. |
| 1:10.6 | We don't control what other people do. |
| 1:12.6 | We don't control that they lie. We don't control that they abuse power. We don't control that they cheat on their spouses. We don't control that they |
| 1:16.5 | attack or persecute. We don't control that they spread misinformation. But we certainly control whether |
| 1:22.8 | we do those things, or rather that we don't do those things. Alexander Solzhenitsyn lived through terrible tyranny, and he refused to let it corrupt |
| 1:31.1 | him. |
| 1:31.6 | He knew that it was impossible for an individual to fight against pervasive evil and corruption. |
| 1:36.7 | But still, he said our duty was simple. |
| 1:39.7 | Our credo must be, let the lie come into the world, he said, let it even triumph, but not through me. |
| 1:48.1 | This is Cato during the last days of the Republic. This is Rutilius and Musonius and agrippinus as they |
| 1:53.3 | face down the power of the state. This is Stockdale and the Hanoi Hilton. It can also be us in this |
| 1:59.5 | moment, whatever the future holds. We must resist |
| 2:02.2 | the moral inversion that celebrates selfishness and rewards dishonesty. We must resist the |
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