Here at DP, we have been passing around our well-thumbed copy of Hannah Arendt’s remarkably prescient Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1950.
Below follows the entire preface to the First Edition, with emphasis added by DP:
We have been here before.
Reject, refuse, resist.
Connect, create, collaborate.
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A faithful DP reader in Prague has guided us towards the 1984 essay by Vaclav Havel, Politics and Conscience. Worth a careful read in its entirety, the heart of the essay — its “values and imperatives” — is excerpted below with italics added by DP for emphasis, and with images borrowed from Sanja Ivekovic’s 1982 video, Practice Makes A Master.
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