CHAPTER FOUR: CAPITALISM, WOKE AND WATCHFUL
1. Parag Khanna, “These 25 Companies Are More Powerful Than Many Countries,” Foreign Policy, March 3, 2016, foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/.
2. Heather Mac Donald, The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture (NY: St. Martin’s Press, 2018), 30.
3. Larry Fink, “A Sense of Purpose,” BlackRock, 2018, blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/2018-larry-fink-ceo-letter.
4. Sarah Perez, “Over a Quarter of US Adults Now Own a Smart Speaker, Typically an Amazon Echo,” Tech Crunch, March 8, 2019, techcrunch.com/2019/03/08/over-a-quarter-of-u-s-adults-now-own-a-smart-speaker-typically-an-amazon-echo/.
5. Shoshana Zuboff, quoted in “‘The Goal Is to Automate Us’: Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” The Guardian, January 20, 2019, theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook.
6. Caleb Parke, “Conservatives Call for PayPal Boycott After CEO Says Southern Poverty Law Center Helps Ban Users,” Fox News, February 28, 2019, foxnews.com/tech/conservatives-call-for-paypal-boycott-after-ceo-admits-splc-helps-ban-users.
7. Michelle Malkin, “Is This Bank Chasing Away Conservatives?,” National Review, April 15, 2019, nationalreview.com/2019/04/chase-bank-conservative-customers/.
8. Katanga Johnson, “U.S. Gun Lobby Takes Aim at ‘Gun-Hating’ Banks Citi, BofA,” Reuters, May 18, 2018, reuters.com/article/us-usa-guns-banks/u-s-gun-lobby-takes-aim-at-gun-hating-banks-citi-bofa-idUSKCN1IJ260.
9. Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (NY: Public Affairs, 2019), loc. 5421, Kindle.
10. Douglas Murray, The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (NY: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019), loc. 2155, Kindle.
11. Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (NY: Metropolitan Books, 2019), 178.
12. Matt Sledge, “CIA’s Gus Hunt on Big Data: We ‘Try to Collect Everything and Hang On to It Forever,” Huffington Post, March 20, 2013, huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/cia-gus-hunt-big-data_n_2917842.
13. Editorial, “How China Corralled 1 Million Uighurs into Concentration Camps,” Washington Post, February 29, 2020, washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-spreadsheet-of-those-in-hell-how-china-corralled-uighurs-into-concentration-camps/2020/02/28/4daeca4a-58c8-11ea-ab68-101ecfec2532_story.html.
14. John Lanchester, “Document Number Nine,” London Review of Books, October 10, 2019, lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n19/john-lanchester/document-number-nine.
15. Kai Strittmatter, We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China’s Surveillance State, trans. Ruth Martin (London: Old Street Publishing, 2019), loc. 1213, Kindle.
16. Strittmatter, Surveillance, loc. 1224, Kindle.
17. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, trans. Michael Henry Heim (NY: Harper & Row, 1984), 112–13.
18. Jean Twenge, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?,” The Atlantic, September 2017, theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/.
CHAPTER FIVE: VALUE NOTHING MORE THAN TRUTH
1. Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe, trans. Paul Wilson (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1992), 39.
2. Havel, Powerless, 39–40.
3. Havel, Powerless, 45.
CHAPTER SIX: CULTIVATE CULTURAL MEMORY
1. Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Annual Report on US Attitudes toward Socialism, Communism, and Collectivism (Washington, DC: 2019), victimsofcommunism.org/2019-annual-poll.
2. Laura M. Nicolae, “100 Years. 100 Million Lives. Think Twice,” Harvard Crimson, November 20, 2017, thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/20/nicolae-one-hundred-million/.
3. Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. Michael Henry Heim (NY: Viking, 1987), 187.
4. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), 3.
5. Leszek Kołakowski, Is God Happy? Selected Essays (NY: Penguin Classics, 2012), 60.
6. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, “Homily Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice,” April 18, 2005, vatican.va/gpII/documents/homily-pro-eligendo-pontifice_20050418_en.html [inactive].
7. Connerton, Societies Remember, 73
8. Oliver Bullough, The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation (NY: Basic Books, 2013), 42, or loc. 788 of 5895, Kindle.
9. Václav Benda, The Long Night of the Watchman: Essays by Václav Benda, 1977–1989, ed. F. Flagg Taylor IV, trans. Barbara Day (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2017), 218.
10. Roger Scruton, Notes from Underground (NY: Beaufort Books, 2014), 54–55, or loc. 760 of 3188, Kindle.
CHAPTER SEVEN: FAMILIES ARE RESISTANCE CELLS
1. Václav Benda, The Long Night of the Watchman: Essays by Václav Benda, 1977–1989, ed. F. Flagg Taylor IV, trans. Barbara Day (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2017), 222–32.
2. Benda, Watchman, 225.
3. Benda, Watchman, 225–26.
4. Benda, Watchman, 226.
5. Benda, Watchman, 228.
CHAPTER EIGHT: RELIGION, THE BEDROCK OF RESISTANCE
1. Silvester Krčméry, MD, This Saved Us: How to Survive Brainwashing (self-pub., 1996), 81.
2. Krčméry, This Saved Us, 100.
3. Bullough, The Last Man in Russia, 85 or loc. 1594 of 5895, Kindle.
4. George Calciu, Interviews, Homilies, and Talks (Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2010), 187.
CHAPTER NINE: STANDING IN SOLIDARITY
1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956, trans. Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts; abr. by Edward E. Ericson Jr. (NY: Perennial, 1983), 86.
CHAPTER TEN: THE GIFT OF SUFFERING
1. Carrie Dann, “‘A Deep and Boiling Anger’: NBC/WSJ Poll Finds a Pessimistic America Despite Current Economic Satisfaction,” NBC News, August 25, 2019, nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/deep-boiling-anger-nbc-wsj-poll-finds-pessimistic-america-despite-n1045916.
2. Søren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard (Farmington, PA: Plough Publishing, 1999), 85.
3. Kierkegaard, Provocations, 88.
4. Silvester Krčméry, MD, This Saved Us: How to Survive Brainwashing (self-pub., 1996), 56.
5. Krčméry, This Saved Us, 163.
6. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956, trans. Thomas P. Whitney and Harry Willetts; abr. by Edward E. Ericson Jr. (NY: Perennial, 1983), 313.
7. “Testimony of Rev. Richard Wurmbrand before the US Senate (1966): Communist Exploitation of Religion,” May 6, 1966, Joseph Smith Foundation, josephsmithfoundation.org/testimony-of-rev-richard-wurmbrand-before-the-u-s-senate-1966-communist-exploitation-of-religion/.
8. Wurmbrand, US Senate.
9. Richard Wurmbrand, The Midnight Bride (Bartlesville, OK: Living Sacrifice, 2009), loc. 713 of 3025, Kindle.
10. George Calciu, Interviews, Homilies, and Talks (Platina, CA: St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2010), 109.
11. Calciu, Interviews, 110.
12. Calciu, Interviews, 111.
13. Calciu, Interviews, 112.
14. Calciu, Interviews, 131.
15. Richard Wurmbrand, In God’s Underground (Bartlesville, OK: Living Sacrifice, 2004), loc. 661, Kindle.
CONCLUSION: LIVE NOT BY LIES
1. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Huxley, accessed May 18, 2020, huxley.net/bnw/seventeen.html.
2. Lubomir Gleiman, From the Maelstrom: A Pilgrim’s Story of Dissent and Survival in the Twentieth Century (Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2011), 103.
3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “Live Not by Lies!,” in Orthodoxy Today, accessed June 2, 2020, orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolhenitsynLies.php.
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INDEX
accepting change, 206
accepting suffering, 210, 211
admirers
disciples contrasted with, 188–91
Kierkegaard on, 190
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff), 76
A Hidden Life (2019), 188–89
Alexandrovich, Vladimir, 123–24
all-powerful state, 71–72
Amazon, 77–78
American dream, 53
American elites, 29, 115
anthropological errors, 65
Applebaum, Anne, 28
Arendt, Hannah, 7–8, 33, 36
on elites, 34–35
on propaganda, 37, 38
on totalitarianism, 30–31, 32, 39, 42, 45–46
atomization, social, 31–32
authoritarianism, 7, 84
banks, 80, 89
Baptists, 102–3, 145–46
Bartulica, Nicholas, 209
Beijing, China, 85, 86
Benda, Kamila, 69–70, 129, 134–35, 137–38, 140, 149–50
Benda, Patrik, on, 144
on common goals, 142
Benda, Klara, 144
Benda, Marek, 136, 137, 212–13
Benda, Marketa, 141, 144
Benda, Martin, 137
Benda, Patrik, 28, 136, 138–39, 140–41, 142
on Benda, Kamila, 144
on Charter 77, 143
Benda, Philip, 138
Benda, Václav, 120–21, 129, 135, 144–45, 149–50
Benda, Marketa, on, 141
Benda, Patrik, on, 136
on families, 130–32, 133–34
letters from, 140–41
Benda family guide to child-raising, 135–45
hospitality and, 143–45
moral courage and, 136–37
moral imaginations in, 137–39
role of stories in, 138
sacrifices for greater good in, 140–41
service to others in, 143–45
wider movements and, 142–43
Benedict Option project, 135
Benedict XVI (pope), xiii
the Bible, 172, 173
Big Brother, 14, 76
Big Business, 72, 73, 74, 75, 93
bitterness, suffering without, 191–93
Bolshevik Revolution, xv, 21, 27, 66, 117
Bolsheviks, 21, 22,
