7/5/2026 at 10:47:09 PM
by iamnothere
7/6/2026 at 4:25:11 PM
I recently read his essay, and wrote a reflection after a trip to Dominica. Review 001: THE POWER OF THE POWERLESS - https://www.metanoia-research.com/review-001-the-power-of-th...by metanoia_
7/6/2026 at 4:07:00 AM
Very much related, Carney at Davos:by consumer451
7/6/2026 at 12:01:53 PM
Nice speech, but twisting Havel into a comment about international governance, at Davos of all places—while enthusiastically joining the global internet crackdown—is quite cheeky.Havel’s essay is clearly about human-scale, bottom-up resistance against totalitarianism, not about creating new oppressive systems to defeat the old ones. The ending seems to reject traditional forms of “governance” entirely.
(For what it’s worth, I agree with some of Carney’s points—the old order was always a lie, and it is indeed dead.)
by iamnothere
7/6/2026 at 5:30:45 AM
In landscape on an iPhone it is very readable. In portrait, not so much as you have pointed out.by tanseydavid
7/6/2026 at 1:55:00 PM
Vaclav Havel: revolutionary, former President of the Czech Republic, and brilliant poet who (IIRC) invented visual word poetry, where the typographic arrangement is part of the poem's intended impact.by IAmBroom
7/6/2026 at 2:34:37 PM
HAHAHA. Best joke ever. Sleeping agent of regime, siphoning all foreign aid for himself. Empty or random words generator is more matching term than "poet".by shuwix
7/6/2026 at 5:18:46 PM
Before you get downvoted to oblivion, please enlighten us on what you mean by "agent of regime". Which regime do you mean, and is there evidence he (c)overtly worked with them?by lioeters
7/6/2026 at 3:00:22 PM
How was Havel's visual poetry different from typographic experiments of the Futurists, like Zang Tumb Tumb?by throw-the-towel
7/6/2026 at 3:37:52 AM
Why does the website render a word or two per line on mobileby szmarczak