The artificial world erected by men who will to remove the last vestige of divine influence in the world, and the last trace of faith in men, promises to be so all-encompassing and so omnipresent that it will be all but impossible for men to see, to imagine, or even to hope for anything beyond it. This world, from the Nihilist point of view, will be one of perfect “realism” and total “liberation”; in actual fact it will be the vastest and most efficient prison men have ever known, for—in the precise words of Lenin—“there will be in no way of getting away from it, there will be ‘nowhere to go’.”
-From “Nihilism” by Fr. Seraphim Rose
Written circa 1962!