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Throw-Back Thursday: The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)

The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)

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A Parallelpolis Only Makes NoSense

A parallel polis only makes sense as an act of deepening one's responsibility to and for the whole. Central european communism allowed each individual nearly free rein in the purely private sphere, as long as he conformed. I expect that as long as it exists to day's cathul state with more power and more reason to intrude. The west will either become more and more a distasteful blend of huxleyite and owellian distopius or its powerful ruling class will itself be shattered by lead and ardix.

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