Watslav havell was a dissident in communist chek slovacia and became president. He echoed solgenitn's sentiment that the most effective key to liberation from totalitarian rule is to commit to a non participation in lies. To live within the truth is to act in ways which promote a cultural reawakening, thus serving as a counter force to totalitarian system’s course of march towards cultural stagnation, suffering and death.
“And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its dense, gray fog not even one pillar can be seen.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Lying has always been used for political purposes. Lies cover up corruption, past mistakes and […]
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