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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Existence #Meaning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
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There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel -
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel -
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel -
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel -
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world. Experts can explain anything in the objective world to us, yet we understand our own lives less and less. In short, we live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain.
-- Vaclav Havel -
Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This
#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer #HowardThurman #VaclavHavel #HannaReichel
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Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This
#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer #HowardThurman #VaclavHavel #HannaReichel
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Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This
#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer #HowardThurman #VaclavHavel #HannaReichel
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Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This
#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer #HowardThurman #VaclavHavel #HannaReichel
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Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited
Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless
Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This
#resistance #solidarity #TimothySnyder #MiltonMayer #Bonhoeffer #HowardThurman #VaclavHavel #HannaReichel
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#livre Le pouvoir des sans-pouvoirs de #VáclavHavel
#year1978 #anthropocene #climat #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis
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@tinderness
Wow, was für eine tolle Rede mit #VáclavHavel als roten Faden darin."Wir verstehen, dass dieser Bruch mehr erfordert als Anpassung. Es erfordert Ehrlichkeit über die Welt, wie sie ist.
... Wir wissen, dass die alte Ordnung nicht zurückkommt. Wir sollten nicht trauern. Nostalgie ist keine Strategie.
Aber wir glauben, dass wir durch den Bruch etwas Besseres, Stärkeres, Gerechteres bauen können. "
Er ist ehrlich und er macht Mut. Das können wir grad gut gebrauchen.🙏 Danke für`s Teilen - ich hätte was wichtiges sonst verpasst.
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Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously headed for early success, but, rather, an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more unpropitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel (1936-2011) Czech playwright, essayist, dissident, politician
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala, ch. 5 “The Politics of Hope” (1986) [tr. Wilson (1990)]More info about this quote: wist.info/havel-vaclav/80335/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vaclavhavel #faith #goodcause #hope #optimism #righteousness #risk #sensibility #success #threat #worthwhile #purpose #cause
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If the main pillar of the system is living a lie, then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth. This is why it must be suppressed more severely than anything else.
Václav Havel (1936-2011) Czech playwright, essayist, dissident, politician
Essay (1978-10), “The Power of the Powerless,” ch. 7 [tr. Wilson], The Power of the Powerless [ed. John Keane] (1985)More info about this quote: wist.info/havel-vaclav/47785/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vaclavhavel #authoritarianism #denial #dishonesty #lie #meme #politicalsystem #society #suppression #threat #totalitarianism #truth #lying
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We enjoy all the achievements of modern civilization ... yet we do not know exactly what to do with ourselves.
-- Vaclav Havel⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #VaclavHavel #Ennui #Modernism
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
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On this evening’s ride, recalling Vaclav Havel’s "The Quiver of a Shrub in California."
#VaclavHavel #WeAreAllConnected #AllOne #MontereyCounty #wildflowers #California #MontereyCountyWildflowers
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@fifilamoura
"resisting the normalization of the unthinkable" - thanks for highlighting this essay.
🔥 #AaronBushnell #ThePowerOfThePowerless #Gaza
🔥 #JanPalach 🔥 #JanZajic #SelfImmolation ✍️ #DerekSayer ✍️ #VaclavHavel -
📙️Neuerwerbung der Gustav-Landauer-Bibliothek Witten:
Franziska Hoppen:
Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence
A New Direction in Political Theory
This book departs from the attempt by political theory to confront the challenges of political life with new concepts, offering instead a mode of thought so far excluded from the canon of political theory: the philosophy of presence. Making the experience of liminality the very centre of thought, it shows how embracing ‘in-betweenness’ allows us to discern the limits of both the political order and contemporary political theory. Through an examination of the works of Gustav Landauer, Eric Voegelin, Simone Weil and Václav Havel, the author demonstrates the manner in which ‘in-betweenness’ may be cultivated by way of the philosophy of presence as a method of self-enquiry into existence as it is experienced subjectively. Arguing that since externalisation is the essence of politics and that the way to a more just society lies inwards, through a confrontation with liminality, this study of how to read philosophers of presence renders their work intelligible to the contemporary discourse of crisis and will appeal to scholars of social, political and anthropological theory and philosophy.
(Source: Routledge)
#Witten #GLBibW #FranziskaHoppen #GustavLandauer #EricVoegelin #SimoneWeil #VáclavHavel
(comment on Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence)
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the certainty of the reality of the possibility
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/30-jul-23-masha-gessen-parallel-polis-and-political-hope/#MashaGessen #ParallelPolis #dissidence #VáclavBenda #VáclavHavel #Solidarność #hope #ErichFromm #blog
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.> ... it is more gratifying to bask in praise for courageously protesting the abuses of official enemies, a fine activity, but not the priority of a value-oriented intellectual who takes the responsibilities of that stance seriously.
- https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/noam-chomsky-responsibility-of-intellectuals-redux/
.> The victims within our domains, unlike those in enemy states, are not merely ignored and quickly forgotten, but are also cynically insulted. One striking illustration came a few weeks after the murder of the Latin American intellectuals in El Salvador. Vaclav Havel visited Washington and addressed a joint session of Congress. Before his enraptured audience, Havel lauded the “defenders of freedom” in Washington who “understood the responsibility that flowed from” being “the most powerful nation on earth”—crucially, their responsibility for the brutal assassination of his Salvadoran counterparts shortly before.
.> The liberal intellectual class was enthralled by his presentation. Havel reminds us that “we live in a romantic age,” Anthony Lewis gushed. Other prominent liberal commentators reveled in Havel’s “idealism, his irony, his humanity,” as he “preached a difficult doctrine of individual responsibility” while Congress “obviously ached with respect” for his genius and integrity; and asked why America lacks intellectuals so profound, who “elevate morality over self-interest” in this way, praising us for the tortured and mutilated corpses that litter the countries that we have left in misery. We need not tarry on what the reaction would have been had Father Ellacuría, the most prominent of the murdered Jesuit intellectuals, spoken such words at the Duma after elite forces armed and trained by the Soviet Union assassinated Havel and half a dozen of his associates—a performance that is inconceivable.
#NoamChomsky comparing #VaclavHavel with #Ellacuría, #IgnacioEllacuria, #FatherEllacuría to place the #LiberalIntellectualClass in context... #ElSalvador #LatinAmericanIntellectuals #JesuitIntellectuals #USACongress #TheDuma -
.> I don’t mean to equate a Vietnamese villager to Vaclav Havel. For one thing, I doubt that the former would have had the supreme hypocrisy and audacity to clothe his praise for the defenders of freedom with gushing about responsibility for the human race. It’s also unnecessary to point out to the half a dozen or so sane people who remain that in comparison to the conditions imposed by US tyranny and violence, East Europe under Russian rule was practically a paradise. Furthermore, one can easily understand why an oppressed Third World victim would have little access to any information (or would care little about anything) beyond the narrow struggle for survival against a terrorist superpower and its clients. And the Pravda hack, unlike his US clones, would have faced a harsh response if he told the obvious truths. So by every conceivable standard, the performance of Havel, Congress, the media, and (we may safely predict, without what will soon appear) the Western intellectual community at large are on a moral and intellectual level that is vastly below that of Third World peasants and Stalinist hacks — not an unusual discovery.
- https://chomsky.info/19900301/
#NoamChomsky in a letter to #AlexanderCockburn writes about #VaclavHavel and #ElSalvador, how #TheColdWar #TheInvasionOfVietnam and #JesuitPriests like #IgnacioEllacuria expose the level of #WesternIntellectuals to be that of #StalinistHacks...
