For me the phrase “May you live in interesting times" is far from a curse. Life without adventure is a life without purpose or meaning. Faith, adventure, creativity – even testing – go together. Not viewed principally as political or economic pitfalls, I think many in the West on a personal level saw communism and blanket socialism as threats to the human spirit and its generative seeds of love, vitality, creativity, and redemptive goodwill. Surfeits of satiation with their spiritual cohorts languor and listlessness lead directly to desperately dull slumbers of death.
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