Book · 2020 · Religion
Live Not by Lies
A Manual for Christian Dissidents
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I wrote the book to not only talk about what they were seeing happening in our time and place that reminded them of totalitarianism but also I traveled to Central Europe and to Russia to talk to people who didn't emigrate, people who stayed behind to resist.
Rod Dreher · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2022 Listen at 6:15 What they say about it
- Inspired by Alexander Solzhenitsyn“inspired by the writings of the great Alexander Solzhenitsyn”4
- Discussing totalitarianism and resistance“reminded them of totalitarianism”3
The best things said about it
We are living in a time of a different kind of totalitarianism and that brings us to why the book, why I began to write the book, the genesis of the book.
Rod Dreher The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2022 This is something that reading solzhenitsyn really convinced me of and of course part of the reason i was attracted to your book it is the idea that p that root to totalitarianism at the individual level is the willingness to knowingly falsify your speech.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2022 And i think i'm glad you brought up renee gerard because i i quote him in the book is saying that the proper and morally justifiable concern for victims was turning rather into a permanent inquisition and a system of totalitarian command.
Rod Dreher The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2022 One of the big lessons of Live Not by Lies came from Watsonville, the first president of a free Czechoslovakia and a playwright who led the opposition in communist Czechoslovakia, he wrote this famous parable called the myth of the green grocer.
Rod Dreher The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2022 Another reason i liked your book is and this is soldier instance um what would you call it his key insight in some sense is that you think that lying protects you that's wrong.
Jordan Peterson The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Jul 2022 Where and when it comes up
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Live Not by Lies by Rod Dreher is a book that examines modern totalitarianism and draws inspiration from central European dissidents and Alexander Solzhenitsyn to explore how individuals can resist ideological conformity. On The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin brought up the book to discuss a post regarding Hungary's political shift. During an episode of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Jordan Peterson and Rod Dreher discussed the genesis of the book, which was inspired by a phone call Dreher received from a Mayo Clinic physician in 2015. Dreher explained that he traveled to central Europe and Russia to interview people who stayed behind to resist totalitarian systems rather than emigrate. Peterson and Dreher both discussed the premise that the root of totalitarianism at the individual level stems from a willingness to knowingly falsify speech and deceive oneself, with Dreher noting he also quoted René Girard in the text regarding how concern for victims can transform into a permanent inquisition.
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Rod Dreher but we are living in a time of a different kind of totalitarianism and that brings us to why the the book w… 6
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“but we are living in a time of a different kind of totalitarianism and that brings us to why the the book why i began to write the book the genesis of the book around 2015 i received a phone call from a man a physician at the mayo clinic”
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“so i wrote the book to not only talk about what they were seeing happening in our time and place that reminded them of totalitarianism but also i traveled to central europe and to russia to talk to people who didn't emigrate people who stayed behind to resist”
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“when i was in russia reporting the book and i'd spent the last three days prior three days out visiting uh the monument for the the the dead from political violence and hearing just incredible stories of atrocities and suffering”
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“and i think i'm glad you brought up renee gerard because i i quote him in the book is saying that the proper and morally justifiable concern for victims was turning rather into a permanent inquisition and a system of totalitarian command”
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“so one of the things one of the big lessons of live not by lies came from watsonville the the first president of a free czechoslovakia and a playwright who led the opposition in communist czechoslovakia he wrote this famous parable called the the myth of the green grocer”
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“i i dedicated my book to the memory of a catholic priest named father thomas love kolakovic and he's an important figure not only of his own time”
Jordan Peterson today we are posed to discuss his newest book live not by lies inspired not least by the great alexander so… 5
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“today we are posed to discuss his newest book live not by lies inspired not least by the great alexander solzhenitsyn author of the gulag archipelago the book that helped bring down the evil soviet empire”
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“this is something that reading solzhenitsyn really convinced me of and of course part of the reason i was attracted to your book it is the idea that p that root to totalitarianism at the individual level is the willingness to knowingly falsify your speech”
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“this is one of the things i so greatly admired about his work and also about about your book his his his diagnosis was that it was the willingness to knowingly deceive yourself”
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“another reason i liked your book is and this is soldier instance um what would you call it his key insight in some sense is that you think that lying protects you that's wrong”
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“so i've been talking today for all of those who are listening with rod drear about his newest book live not by lies i would say inspired by the writings of the great alexander solzhenitsyn”
Dave Rubin I mean, I want to read to you something. You posted this on uh on Twitter, but it's a it's from our friend… 1
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“I mean, I want to read to you something. You posted this on uh on Twitter, but it's a it's from our friend Rodri who wrote live not by lies.”
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“I first came to Budapest around 2018 on a book tour but also I came a year later to do research for my book Live Not By Lies which is about the message that people who survived communism in Europe, Soviet communism, the message they have for us in the West today about the new softer totalitarianism that they see”
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“he's senior editor at the american conservative and author of live not by lies”
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“this is the kind of thing i talk about in my book live not by lies the soft totalitarianism coming in”