“The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage”

(Title quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn)

Ah yes, why not strip all away, reform

The old, tear down the grey, the dull, reject

Each thing that’s gone before? Let’s not conform.

Let customs all be damned, let’s not select,

But smash the lot. Utopia requires

Tabula rasa, so let’s scratch out thought,

Religion, history, and start such fires

That there can be no hope of saving aught.

And we shall make men’s minds anew, so they

Shall never look to what has gone before,

Shall not consult an ancient wisdom, pray

To any higher power.  For less is more.

But let us act with guile, and be wise

Destruction needs a positive disguise.