Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction żeby Timothy SnyderCowed żeby life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite!
Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves?Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditation on political dissent – the rituals of its suppression, and the sparks that re-ignite ...