Leo Tolstov life lesson #1 Keep an open mind
Tolstoy Ploughing (c.1889) by Ilya Repin
One area in which Tolstoy excelled was the ability and willingness to
change his mind based on new experiences. It was a skill he began
nurturing in the 1850s when he was an army officer. Tolstoy fought in
the bloody siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War, a horrific
experience that turned him from a regular soldier into a pacifist. A
decisive event took place in 1857, when he witnessed a public execution
by guillotine in Paris. He never forgot the severed head thumping into
the box below. It convinced him of the belief that the state and its
laws were not only brutal, but served to protect the interests of the
rich and powerful. He wrote to a friend, "The truth is that the State is
a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its
citizens...Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
Tolstoy was on his way to becoming an anarchist. His criticisms of the
tsarist regime in Russia became so vociferous that only his literary
fame saved him from imprisonment. Tolstoy would be the first to
encourage us to question the fundamental beliefs and dogmas we have been
brought up with.
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1 comment:
I'll take Dostoyevsky and to be honest,GOyim kingdoms aren't that big a deal, it's the secret Jew control that is the base of our worries now
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