{"id":1164,"date":"2023-10-30T05:52:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/the-axis-of-the-human-heart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T05:52:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T05:52:29","slug":"the-axis-of-the-human-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/the-axis-of-the-human-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Axis of the Human Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Rod Dreher <a href=\"https:\/\/roddreher.substack.com\/p\/the-axis-of-the-human-heart\">quotes<\/a> Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either\u2014but right through every human heart\u2014and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains \u2026 an un-uprooted small corner of evil.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">This free <em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/roddreher.substack.com\/p\/the-axis-of-the-human-heart\">article<\/a> by Dreher is one of his finest. Please do read it for your own good. And read it all: pay attention to the account of the unspeakable savagery of the American Indians, a savagery typically downplayed or unmentioned by leftists.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher quotes Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either\u2014but right through every human heart\u2014and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/the-axis-of-the-human-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Axis of the Human Heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,39,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-and-evil","category-human-predicament","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}