#Vaclav Havel

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Václav Havel, from "The Power of the Powerless" [ID'd]

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Paintings by Shibamoto from the Trinity Blood Stories Untold book, that came out I believe in 2005. A year after Yoshida's passing. I translated these the best I could. Honestly, I don't think the last painting with Lilith is talking about Abel, I feel its Cain. Would make since. once upon a time Cain was a good man, who was loved by all and did his best to help the human race and protect his family and Lilith alike. Even if he held just as much resentment towards humanity as Abel. He chose to handle it a better way. I wouldn't be surprised if she was secretly in love with him. I don't ship it though. It fits with Yoshida's writing style. Many beautiful women in love with Abel, he's in love with a woman who secretly hates his guts and who is secretly in love with a man who can't love anymore. All of these are inspired off of events that might have happened if the series had kept going. Not moments of scenes that were to happen. Seth and Lilith's wings aren't canon. Since there not in the books. Just Shibamoto's ideas of what they might have wanted them to look like.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Carnival of A Lost World * “Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.” ― Václav Havel

[alive on all channels]

[romanananan]

you have the vibes of someone who kins vaclav havel tbh

COŽE.

[vaclav-havel-slenderman]

collect my special beef broth for meetings of presidental office (I picked out every single piece of meat and vegetables, also I don't like noodles because they remind me of jail) (it's just beefed up water)

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*It’s crazy, bordering on planetary psychosis, that only seven thousand people would watch this movie on Youtube in the stricken year  of our world 2023

[eternal-echoes]

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

- Vaclav Havel

[exhaled-spirals]

« The manager of a fruit and vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: ‘Workers of the World, Unite!’ Why does he do it? What is he trying to communicate to the world?

[…H]e is indifferent to the semantic content of the slogan on exhibit; he does not put the slogan in his window from any personal desire to acquaint the public with the ideal it expresses. This, of course, does not mean that his action has no motive or significance at all, or that the slogan communicates nothing to anyone. The slogan is really a sign, and as such it contains a subliminal but very definite message. Verbally, it might be expressed this way: ‘I, the greengrocer XY, live here and I know what I must do. I behave in the manner expected of me. I can be depended upon and am beyond reproach. I am obedient and therefore I have the right to be left in peace.’ This message, of course, has an addressee: it is directed above, to the greengrocer’s superior, and at the same time it is a shield that protects the greengrocer from potential informers. […]

Let us take note: if the greengrocer had been instructed to display the slogan, ‘I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient’, he would not be nearly as indifferent to its semantics, even though the statement would reflect the truth. The greengrocer would be embarrassed and ashamed to put such an unequivocal statement of his own degradation in the shop window […]. To overcome this complication, his expression of loyalty must take the form of a sign which, at least on its textual surface, indicates a level of disinterested conviction. It must allow the greengrocer to say, ‘What’s wrong with the workers of the world uniting?’ Thus the sign helps the greengrocer to conceal from himself the low foundations of his obedience […]. It hides them behind the façade of something high. And that something is ideology.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. It is an excuse that everyone can use, from the greengrocer, who conceals his fear of losing his job behind an alleged interest in the unification of the workers of the world, to the highest functionary […]. As the repository of something ‘supra-personal’ and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and their inglorious modus vivendi, both from the world and from themselves. It is a very pragmatic, but at the same time an apparently dignified, way of legitimizing what is above, below, and on either side. […] It is a veil behind which human beings can hide their […] adaptation to the status quo.

[...] Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system. »

— Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless

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"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."

Vaclav Havel, writer, Czech Republic president (5 October 1936-2011)

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米で酷評の曲も東欧で革命の力

　米国では退廃の極みと非難され居場所を得られなかった地下世界の音楽が、東欧の「アンダーグラウンド」では「人々の魂を目覚めさせ」（ハヴェル）、堅牢な体制を突き崩す生地＝「ヴェルヴェット」となった。音楽の秘めた力がかくも直截に発露した事例は極めて稀だろう。

2023/10/21 朝日新聞

『ルー・リード伝』

アンソニー・デカーティス＜著＞

奥田祐士＜訳＞

書評：椹木野衣

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

climate.change

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When it comes to history, I'm a high roller. Thread from earlier today: I'm struck by how routinely people don't want to do anything whose successful outcome is not guaranteed when it comes to big stuff like climate. (Imagine if people played games that way. But also imagine the dismalness of history if everyone was that way.

Take this famous quote by Vaclav Havel: “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.” --Vaclav Havel

Imagine a Havel who thought in the 1970s: our chance of dismantling this Soviet client state that controls our lives is slim so I think I'll just do nothing in particular and rock no boats.

Havel rocked boats, went to jail three times, was a co-creator and signatory of the famous Charter 77 declaration of rights in defiance of the state....  It took another dozen years for the regime to crumble, overnight, through the most beautiful people power, known as the Velvet Revolution. But it crumbled. Little things added up. Persistence mattered. Commitment in the face of what seemed insurmountable was crucial.

It wasn't just Havel (and Havel was not a perfect person or, later, prime minister), but he is a splendid example of persistence in the face of the odds and maybe the unknowable. No one knew the Velvet Revolution was coming until it came. But they built it anyway.

What I often see now is people who are either confident that we will fail (thus nothing need be done because that future already exists) or reluctant to do anything unless it's guaranteed to succeed (which isn't how it works).  

This for me is so resonant for this decade of decision about the long future of the earth: “Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out.” This is so worth doing.

And we can see the consequences of climate movements, campaigns, legislation, stories that changed the way people see the situation. They have, of course, not been enough to bend the curve to where it needs to be, but they've bent it a lot. 

Climate people are amazing. I see them living by conviction and commitment, doing what they can because it is worth doing, with consequences. But this thread was prompted by the presence of people with the opposite mindset, waiting for the assurances that will never arrive....

"But accepting the current political reality of our times is a death sentence. Campaign goals do not have to be small, and they certainly do not have to be accepted as politically realistic."   --Daniel Hunter

[Rebecca Solnit]

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The Stones with Vaclav Havel (1994)

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collect my letters (you are Olga)