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.)
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.
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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.)