Living Sane in an Insane World We are supposed to live in a rational and just world—guided by wisdom, truth, and compassion. And yet, history and modern life continually remind us how far we are from that ideal. In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin’s campaign of forced collectivization in Soviet Russia led to the deaths of millions during the Holodomor. Despite this, Time Magazine named him Man of the Year in 1939 and 1942. A year earlier, in 1938, Adolf Hitler was given the same title—less as a moral endorsement than as an acknowledgment of influence. But what does it say about a world that confuses power with progress?