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.)
Very much related, Carney at Davos:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694482
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694947
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.)
In landscape on an iPhone it is very readable. In portrait, not so much as you have pointed out.
Why does the website render a word or two per line on mobile