A world split apart… The West… All of these being titles that Alexander Solzhenitsyn used in his Harvard Commencement Address in June of 1978 for the graduating class that spring. His speech encompassing many themes and important concepts that apply to today’s world. To summarize in whole just what Solzhenitsyn was speaking on: In general the west and the problems and influences that it has on our modern world but also the world at that time. There were and still are two world powers that are very able to destroy each other, but it goes much deeper than that- the split in our world has gone down further to the depth of Third World issues. This split is, Solzhenitsyn explains, is more weighty and disaffecting. This other split is within …show more content…
Well that is not the case, and although it is a nice theory to conceive, the world is not moving towards convergence. He speaks differently to us in the West compared to how he would speak to students or people in Russia. Solzhenitsyn realizes that there is a striking and serious decline in courage in the West; from any one nation to the United Nations- wholly or partially. Intellectuals develop good policies for the self-serving rationales but in the real world they will never succeed for very prominent leaders will emerge! The west assumes that the government is there to serve the citizens and that the welfare state is full of content people who are not materialistic and do not require more stuff. Well, that is far from the truth, the west is filled with materialistic people that are dissatisfied with how the world works and are overall discontentment is the norm. The west goes even further to assume that the law is what dictates what is good and evil. But, not everything that is legal is good. They do not have a higher authority to appeal to. However, freedom in law makes no distinction between good and