post-democracy and non-sequitous pictures

By “post-democracy” I meant nothing more, and nothing other than a democracy that has once again been given human content, which is to say that it is not just formal, not just institutional, not just an elegant mechanism to ensure that although the same overn, it appears as though the citizens are themselves choosing them again. I may have been naïve, but I was merely explaining then what I still think to this day, and more urgently than ever: that if everything is not to turn out badly for us, we will need a revolution of “heads and hearts” as Maaryk called it, a kind of general awakening, an emphasis on seeking an alternative to the established and already shopworn and very technocratic political parties, or at least a crying out for the inner renewal; an effort to rid them of their hidden, subtle, and omnipresent power, which itself is a denial of the principles of representative democracy, an emphasis on the development of an open civil society and on the reconstruction of transparent human communities as an instrument of human solidarity and self-regulationl an emphasis on long-term interests and on the spiritual and morla dimensions of politics—all of those are simply aspects or consequences of the same fundamental ideal, which of course is not complicated in the least. It is simply the extrication of the human race from self-destructive and automoatic collapse of civilization.



Pics--Jana the german (unlike Vaclav, the czech)--Jeremy the office's barista--and ben, my syphilitic, self-absorbed dog