A friend of mine recently urged me to watch Doctor Zhivago, the film based on Boris Pasternak’s book. He stated that it had been on the American Film Institute’s top 100 list and was inexplicably removed recently.
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Further research indicates that this movie is the highest-ranked “removal” ever, going from #39 to completely off the list.
Within the first few minutes, I could easily see why. Doctor Zhivago depicts the struggle of a talented man, Yuri Zhivago, who is determined to maintain a private life and a family life within the context of a totalitarian communist society in revolution.
It remains a sweeping and total condemnation of communist revolutionary ideology.
There are striking parallels between the movie and what is happening right now in our Republic. If you have not seen it, watch it before the Democrat Party, and their media oligarchy declare it ‘verboten’, just like it was under the Soviet Union.
There is a scene about one hour into the movie where a fanatical communist revolutionary named Pasha is introduced by his girlfriend Lara to the grotesque yet prescient Komarovsky. The three are involved in what could only be called a disgustingly tragic love triangle.
In an awkward exchange, Pasha seeks approval from Komarovsky to marry Lara.
In a telling qualifying statement to his desire for marriage, he states, ‘I am committed to the revolution. Nothing – not even Lara – has more importance for me.’ Pasha then reaches over and touches the beautiful Lara’s hand while gazing into her eyes, after telling her she comes second to the ‘revolution.’
Lara, young and naive, does not yet recognize that her revolutionary suitor has placed the Party far above her.
This delusion that one should place devotion to a political cause above your relationship with loved ones and family is what our Founding Fathers might consider a gross violation of ‘natural law.’
What exactly is natural law? Simply put, natural law is the portion of the laws of God that man can understand through reason alone.
There is not necessarily a code or statute that enforces every natural law, yet recognizing and promoting natural law leads to civil society at peace.
Through such gross violations of natural law, men like Pasha propelled the Bolshevik revolution forward. Today, we see such gross violations of natural law perpetrated within our own society as a communist revolutionary ideology is endorsed and promoted by the Democrat party.
Recent examples of these gross violations of natural law come from two 18-year-old Americans, one from Texas and one from Massachusetts, who turned in their parents for attending the protests at the Capitol on 1/6/21.
One of these cases involves an extended period of informing the FBI leading up to the protests, during, and afterward.
You should watch this interview on CNN to understand the developing dynamic, where a culture of judgment and surveillance has been instilled within our families that break natural law.
The Democrat party rewards this destruction of family bonds with accolades on social media and interviews on television, which leads to a twisted celebrity status used to collect ‘donations.’
A more discretionary and honest media might leave these tragic affairs between the family and law enforcement. However, they propagandize them to entrench further the surveillance subculture they are building to serve the Democrat party.
This episode of the Kuhner report is full of parents calling in speaking about similar issues they have had within their families.
There are very similar parallels between these recent cases and Pavel Morozov, the 13-year-old Soviet youth who reported his father to the political police and was made into a national hero.
The dignity of the family, the bonds between parent and child and husband and wife, are redefined and replaced by a false dignity, which is a loyalty test for the Democrat party. This new and lesser dignity offers short term fame and long term spiritual ruin.
This ‘revolutionary’ dignity caused Pasha to put the ‘revolution’ above his desire to marry Lara. Dignity is licensed by the Party, and it is revoked by the Party. In this way, a Country can be burned from within, and an unspeakable horror may arise from its ashes.
The movie Doctor Zhivago serves as a cautionary tale for what happens to a society, and indeed the world, when people like Pasha decide to quench their delusional revolutionary desires and violate natural law. It is a succinct account of how a country murders itself, family by family, relationship by relationship, for a false and delusional ideal.
Doctor Zhivago’s brother Yevgraf, a doubtful Soviet secret police officer, ponders, ‘I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the Party is beneath the dignity of any man’.
For many Americans, the Democrat party defines what dignity is. It has supplanted the natural law and redefined dignity to require informing on your parents and loved ones. Not even the bonds between mother, father, son, and daughter are out of bounds for the Democrat party in their fatal dance with revolutionary communist ideology.
If breaking the bonds serves the Party, then the Party wants them broken.
