Submitted by: Lisa Richards
Why is Man His Greatest Threat?
From August 3, 2009
There is danger lurking inside movements toward change. Change for the good is virtuous, but what if change appears good but in effect hides an end result destructive to civilization? What if revolutionizing modifies good, transforming it toward an alteration all live to regret? What if the greatest threat to freedom is in fact man turning freedom into enslavement via mass movements?
“…many who join a rising revolutionary movement are attracted by the prospect of sudden and spectacular change…”[1] We saw this during the 1950’s and early 1960’s in Cuba. Cubans desperate to free themselves from Batista’s oppression were conned by the charismatic Castro brothers. Lenin and Trotsky’s Bolsheviks roused poor and starving Russians desperate for democracy, overthrew the czar, assassinated the Russian royal family and overpowered Russians who never experienced freedom in their 1000 year history. Lenin’s Marxist communism was able to take hold and eventually usher in the era of Stalin.
