
Throw-Back Thursday: The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Living Within the Truth
Modern liberal democracy requires is no less living within a lie, an adherenc to unreality, than was the system under which havell lived. If our own creeping titalitarianism is to be headed off in the pass, it could be rapid wrenching change - directly analogous to the collapse of communism. Such change might be peaceful, though my bet is that violence will be involved,. since the left is unlikely to relinquish power as gently as did their communist cousins.
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