
Throw-Back Thursday: The Power of the Powerless (Václav Havel)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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The Greengrocer Reclaims His Identity and Dignity
In placing the sign given to him, the greengrocer effectively strengthens the totality of the ruling ideology and humiliates himself. This panorama has a subliminal meaning as well - it reminds people where they are living and what is expected of them. It tells them what everyone else is doing, and indicates to them what they must do as well if they don't want to be excluded or alienate themselves from society. By this very fact, individuals confirm the system. Fulfil the system, make the system, are the system. Reality has nothing to do with it. In fact, such an ideology is so strong havell says that there is nothing to prevent ideology from becoming more
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