"Notice how often the words we use these days are more important than what we are talking about. The word -- as such -- has ceased to be a sign for a category, and has gained a kind of occult power to transform one reality into another...We need only to use the magic word 'disproportion,' and something unforgivably half-baked is suddenly not only excused but may even be raised to the level of historical necessity."
I've been buying a lot of feminist, anarchist, dissident books, I'm probably going to end up on a government list 😆 Vaclav Havel was a Czechoslovakian playwright jailed for being a dissident during the communist regime and became the first Czech Republic president after the fall of the Soviet Union. It's frightening how his letters could easily be talking about what's happening now.
pickThis is maybe one of the better and most important things I've ever read. Havel's writing before he took office should be studied by many. The history he lived is incredibly applicable to today's America. I could rant on and on and endlessly quote this man but really I will just strongly recommend it to anybody who feels that politics and morality do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990 | 
